Antiwar Protests Spreading in Ukraine as Government Wages All-Out War in the Southeast

Antiwar Protests Spreading in Ukraine as Government Wages All-Out War in the Southeast
August 3 2014

The protests are paralleled by a rise in Ukraine army desertions and refusals of men and women to heed conscription orders.

Army in trouble

Exact numbers of army desertions are not known and are the subject of considerable debate and counter-debate. This website report, for example, publishes a purported Ukraine army report saying that close to 3,500 soldiers deserted in the third week of July and that 1,600 soldiers died and 4,700 were wounded in that same time. Sources in Russia say the documents it cites are not authentic.

http://www.network54.com/Forum/84302/thread/1407113920/last-1407113920/Antiwar+Protests+Spreading+in+Ukraine+as+Government+Wages+All-Out+War+in+the+Southeast

 

The Shrinking Cauldron – The Surrender of the 72nd Brigade
Posted by Gleb Bazov ⋅ August 4, 2014

http://slavyangrad.org/2014/08/04/the-shrinking-cauldron/
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August 04, 2014
More than 400 Ukrainian troops have been allowed to cross into Russia after requesting sanctuary. It’s the largest, but not the first, case of desertion into Russia by Ukrainian soldiers involved in Kiev’s military crackdown in the east of the country.
http://cdn.rt.com/files/news/2b/64/c0/00/-military-russia-refuge.si.jpg
http://slavija.proboards.com/thread/7043/ukraine?page=46

 

Captured Kiev soldiers, military hardware on display in Donetsk
August 25 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb5nqHyWnjI&list=TLyGqONZbRwKMhYV7rHIO6EbykFaB4wQZD

 

Pictures of victims died from their own government force. News censored by West main stream media.
Our ‘Enemies’ in Ukraine Speak

By Eric Zuesse

Global Research, August 22, 2014
America’s ‘news’ media do not let the victims of Ukraine’s civil war — the people who are dying and being driven out from the southeastern regions of that country by the new Ukrainian Government — speak, and tell their story.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/our-enemies-in-ukraine-speak/5396967

 

Russian NGOs demand investigation of massacres near Ukraine's Donetsk

September 24,
Many of the victims are said to have been shot in the head at point-blank range
MOSCOW, September 24. /ITAR-TASS/. Russian non-governmental organizations are demanding a comprehensive investigation of the mass graves containing bodies of civilians near Donetsk. Local militias found the graves on September 23. Many of the victims are said to have been shot in the head at point-blank range. Just two days ago that territory had been under the control of Kiev’s forces. Now it will be explored most thoroughly. Militias say they have discovered other graves, too, which will remain unexcavated for the time being.
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/751011

 

Losing Credibility: The IMF’s New Cold War Loan to Ukraine

September 9, 2014

By Michael Hudson

In April 2014, fresh from riots in Maidan Square and the February 22 coup, and less than a month before the May 2 massacre in Odessa, the IMF approved a $17 billion loan program to Ukraine’s junta. Normal IMF practice is to lend only up to twice a country’s quote in one year. This was eight times as high.

Four months later, on August 29, just as Kiev began losing its attempt at ethnic cleansing against the eastern Donbas region, the IMF signed off on the first loan ever to a side engaged in a civil war, not to mention rife with insider capital flight and a collapsing balance of payments. Based on fictitiously trouble-free projections of the ability to pay, the loan supported Ukraine’s hernia currency long enough to enable the oligarchs’ banks to move their money quickly into Western hard-currency accounts before the hernia plunged further and was worth even fewer euros and dollars.
http://michael-hudson.com/2014/09/losing-credibility-the-imfs-new-cold-war-loan-to-ukraine/

 

The bodies of 286 women who had been raped have been discovered in the city of Krasnoarmeisk where Ukrainian volunteer battalion was based.

© AP Photo/ Dmitry Lovetsky

12:21 31/10/2014
DONETSK, October 31 (RIA Novosti) – The bodies of 286 women have recently been discovered in the eastern Ukrainian city of Krasnoarmeisk while almost 400 women between the ages of 18 and 25 are still listed as missing, Alexander Zakharchenko, prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic said Friday.

"Around 400 women between the ages of 18 and 25 have gone missing in Krasnoarmeisk where Ukrainian forces Dnepr-1 was based. The bodies of 286 women around Krasnoarmeisk who had been raped have been discovered," Zakharchenko said at a meeting with students from Donetsk National Technical University.
http://en.ria.ru/world/20141031/194885628/Bodies-of-286-Women-Discovered-400-Listed-Missing-in-East.html