Does the war in Donbass matter?
KYIV, Ukraine—And it goes on and on in eastern Ukraine. Every day and every night. There’s never any end to the artillery, the rockets, the snipers.
Or the killing.
The war in Ukraine has so far killed more than 10,300 Ukrainians, including at least 2,523 civilians, according to the United Nations.
http://dailysignal.com/2017/12/15/why-the-war-in-ukraine-matters-to-america/

The General Staff of Russia’s armed forces has blamed Ukraine of complicity in the recent attack on its airbase in Syria involving explosives-packed UAVs, an UNIAN correspondent in Russia reported referring to Major General Alexander Novikov, head of UAV construction and development department of the General Staff.

https://www.unian.info/world/2341293-russia-claims-ukraine-might-be-involved-in-drone-attack-on-hmeymim-airbase-in-syria.html
The Russian Defense Ministry noted that the design used by the militants could only be obtained from a technologically advanced country, and warned of the danger of such attacks in any country in the world.
However, the Pentagon has refuted these claims by saying that such devices are "easily available" on the "open market."

Strange story.
Latvian Mikus Alps, who fought in 8th battalion of Ukrainian Volunteer Army, is the man found dead in burnt-out car on British Guernsey, says the battalion.
Battalion comment:
https://www.facebook.com/aratta.uda/videos/1157522917684524/

We have lost ...
In the center of Europe - in the British Isles of Guernsey, a soldier was killed. The 8th individual battalion of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, Mikus Mick Alps, a volunteer in the battalion over the past two years. He was shot, killed, tied up and burned in a car, which Mick brought for the military needs of the battalion.
The assassination on islands, where the population is less than 70 thousand, where it is difficult to quickly escape, where everyone knows each other - that is a resonant event.
The Sicilian Mafia is a kindergarten in comparison with those methods that the Kremlin uses to fulfill its imperial goals. For them, there is no difference in where to kill - whether in the east of Ukraine or in the center of Europe.
And they will not stop.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-guernsey-42682006
"They killed him demonstratively - they tied him in a car and burned him alive. They wrote on his page, telephoned him, they said that if he did not stop helping Ukrainian army and us, he would be killed, such intimidations were made not only in his regard, but also his friends from Latvia", told a friend of Alps, volunteer Oleh Nazarenko.

Israel named Ukraine the leader in quantity and growth of anti-Semitic actions in the post-Soviet space.
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Frian.com.ua%2Fpolitics%2F20180122%2F1031527953%2FIsrael-antisemitism-Ukraine.html&sandbox=1

True that Ukraine have a problem with antisemitism.
Still worshiping Stepan Bandera.
Both in the Western and the Eastern part.
And Crimea.
Ukraine is very much divided so I wonder why the Ministry for the Affairs of the Israeli Diaspora don't take that in consideration.
Many members of the Jewish community moves from Eastern Ukraine to Western Ukraine.

Over half of the members of the Jewish community, according to their estimates, have left Donbas, as have believers from Protestant, Greek-Catholic, Evangelical and other churches, and Orthodox believers attached to the Kyiv Patriarchate. The report mentions also that virtually all foreign students have left, and so too have the Roma. The leaders of the self-styled ‘republics’ regularly come out with anti-Semitic utterances, however no incidents of anti-Semitism have been recorded.

Ukraine sees drop in xenophobic violence everywhere but Russian-occupied Crimea http://khpg.org/index.php?id=1453412775

And...
Paid ‘Anti-Semitism’ in Lviv http://khpg.org/index.php?id=1437615061
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/debunking-russia-s-narrative-of-rampant-anti-semitism-in-ukraine-again

Voice of America, Ukrainian edition: Joe Biden shared his experience of talks in Kyiv.
"I said: I'm going after 6 hours, if your Attorney General is not released until then, you do not get the money. And that bitch's son was released. And in his place put the one who was trusted at that time."

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=uk&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fukrainian.voanews.com%2Fa%2Fbayden-ozbroyenya-ukrayiny%2F4220730.html&edit-text=

P.S. Sorry for the Google translation. :)

Ukraine. The Jewish question. Anti-Semitic scandals in Odessa and around the country: https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=ru&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=https://rian.com.ua/story/20171227/1030820285/antisemity-skandaly-Odessa-strana.html&usg=ALkJrhhQuoNhaQjqJKmZ4nfhRm80vS8TVQ

400. That’s an error.
Your client has issued a malformed or illegal request. That’s all we know.

Anyway, take it from here.
https://rian.com.ua/story/20171227/1030820285/antisemity-skandaly-Odessa-strana.htm

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РИА Новости Украина: https://rian.com.ua/story/20171227/1030820285/antisemity-skandaly-Odessa-strana.htm

Perhaps you mean this story https://www.rt.com/news/414406-ukraine-antisemitism-israel-graffiti/

http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/what-lavrov-s-lies-mean-for-ukraine

Voltaire reportedly said that those who can persuade one to believe absurdities will lead one to commit atrocities. In contemporary politics Russia’s stance on Ukraine represents a cardinal example of the enduring validity of his remark. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently restated three lies: there are no Russian troops in the Donbas, the conflict in eastern Ukraine is a civil war, not a Russian invasion, and the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in July 2014 had nothing to do with Russian forces. All of these are bold-face lies. No amount of prevarication can obscure fact, although the Kremlin has tried mightily.

Yes, bold-face lies indeed.
The Kremlin tactic is to deny every facts that they are accused of until everyone has hopefully forgotten what it is all about or perhaps not even care anymore.
For instance the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 atrocity.
It has now gone 4 years since it happened...

Ukrainian media: The head of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine admitted that the level of vaccination against measles in Ukraine is less than in Somalia and Southern Sudan

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... Meanwhile, "Vesti" reported that in Ukraine 86% of the affected people were unvaccinated . The Ministry of Health immediately decided to put falsifiers in prison. And the parents began to admit that they were buying certificates of vaccinations for their children.

As reported by "Vesti", a mass outflow of doctors to Poland and other European countries led to the virtually emptiness in Ukrainian medicine.
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https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fvesti-ukr.com%2Fzdorovie%2F274758-suprun-uroven-vaktsinatsii-ot-kori-v-ukraine-menshe-chem-v-somali-i-juzhnom-sudane&edit-text=

Treatment for measles does not exist.
http://life.pravda.com.ua/columns/2018/01/25/22864
What? Ukraine even get help from UNICEF.
Cases of measles are 20 times higher in 2017 compared to the previous year, according to data from Ukraine's Health Ministry.

UNICEF has delivered vaccines at the request of the Ministry of Health since 2016.
This includes more than 1.7 million doses of the MMR vaccine; a combination of measles, mumps and rubella, which is quality assured by WHO and registered in Ukraine.
There are now sufficient vaccines in the country for children who are scheduled to receive them, according to the approved calendar, as well as for those who may have missed their routine immunisations.
To further bolster the supply, nearly 600,000 additional doses of MMR vaccine will be delivered by the end of August 2017.

https://blogs.unicef.org/blog/sad-inevitability-of-measles-in-ukraine/
What happens to all doses delivered to Ukraine?
Silly question by me. Some oligarchs are probably laughing all the way to the bank.
On the other hand.
Damage to vaccine confidence from the spread of misinformation about vaccines has made some health workers reluctant to recommend vaccination and some parents hesitant to demand it for their children.
Restoring the population’s trust in the health system and in vaccination requires a long-term, sustained effort.

Polish media: Polish parliament adopted the law against "banderism", law against denying crimes of Ukrainian nationalists.
The law adopted today concerns the definition of the crimes of Ukrainian nationalists and Ukrainian organizations collaborating with the Third Reich, as well as the introduction of the possibility of conducting criminal proceedings against persons who deny the execution of these crimes.
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=pl&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fdorzeczy.pl%2Fkraj%2F54261%2FSejm-uchwalil-ustawe-o-penalizacji-banderyzmu.html

P.S.
I.e. it's law against the big part of modern Ukrainian official ideology.

Stepan Bandera:(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepan_Bandera

Bandera remains a highly controversial figure today, both in Ukraine and internationally, with some hailing him as a liberator who fought both the Soviets and the Nazis while trying to establish an independent Ukraine, while others consider him to be a Nazi collaborationist[17] and a war criminal[18] who was, together with his followers, largerly responsible for the Volhynian genocide[19] and partially for The Holocaust in Ukraine

Yes there are many who worship him even today in Ukraine.
Pravini Sektor that is a "political" party (actually a bunch of thugs) in Ukraine for instance.

They get help from the Azov battalion who was/are fighting in Donbass.
In the battalion there are ultranationalists, right-wing extremists and Nazis who participate for ideological reasons, open to advocating white power and anti-Semitic positions.

EURONEWS: On January 28, hundreds of people dressed in uniforms with the inscription "National squads" came out onto the streets of Kiev, faces of many of them were closed by balaclava. They passed the ranks on Khreshchatyk, after which they took the oath "to serve the Ukrainian nation." Their ultimate goal they call the establishment of the "Ukrainian order", for which, according to their own words, they "are not afraid to use force."
Their leader is Verkhovna Rada deputy Andrey Biletsky, activist of the ultra-right movement from the late 1990s, leader of neo-Nazi organizations "Patriot of Ukraine" and "Social-National Assembly" nicknamed "White Leader". In 2011, he was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, but was released from custody by the new government in February 2014.

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fru.euronews.com%2F2018%2F01%2F31%2Fukraine-far-right-national-guards&edit-text=

P.S. Sorry for the Google primitive translation.

It's a reminiscent of 1930s Germany :(
Neo-Nazi Azov battalion roaming the streets of Kyiv acting police...
HRW's Cooper said one of her primary concerns was who would be targeted by the group. "Members of this political party espouse intolerance towards ethnic minorities and LGBT people, so it seems completely absurd that these people would be able [and willing] to protect everyone," she said of the Azovs.

About The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov.

The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov, who integrated Azov and other similar formations into the Interior Ministry and provided them with freedom of hands in the frontline areas, promises to stop the activities of "paramilitary entities" in the rest of the country and restore the government's monopoly on violence.

Well I have some doubt about that.
Avakov has enjoyed a close relationship with the Azov movement in the past.

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-azov-right-wing-militia-to-patrol-kyiv/29008036.html

Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist (S) says Sweden can contribute soldiers to a UN-led peacekeeping force in eastern Ukraine, on the understanding that Russia and the Western world agree on such an assignment, Reuters states.
"We are not there yet," said Hultqvist at the same time.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-security-ukraine-crisis-gabri/sweden-says-it-could-be-part-of-u-n-peacekeeping-in-ukraine-idUSKCN1G10B2
As a non-NATO country, Sweden was proposed as a possible lead nation in a U.N. force in a report commissioned by former NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen, now an adviser to Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko.

The New York Times: In Ukraine, Corruption Is Now Undermining the Military

"To the consternation of the Ukrainian leader, though, the conflict with pro-Russian separatists is slowly mutating in the public mind from a heroic struggle into yet another sinkhole of profiteering and graft."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/world/europe/ukraine-corruption-military.html

Putin's Russia is also a "sinkhole of profiteering and graft".

Yes, I understand, it's vexes to see that the pro-Western coup in Ukraine has led to increase of corruption, a raise of neo-nazis and preservation of the power of oligarchs.

Putin's Russia is also a "sinkhole of profiteering and graft".

Yes, I understand, it's vexes to see that the pro-Western coup in Ukraine has led to increase of corruption, a raise of neo-nazis and preservation of the power of oligarchs.

There has not been a pro-Western coup in Ukraine that has led to increase of corruption according to Transparency International.
The two most corrupted countries in Europe are Russia and Ukraine both ranked 131 of 176 countries in the world!
They have had about the same bad corruption level for at least 5 years.
They score even worse than Belarus ranked 79!
https://www.transparency.org/country/UKR

Rank      Score 2016    2015    2014    2013    2012
79	Belarus	40	32	31	29	31
131	Russia	29	29	27	28	28	
131	Ukraine	29	27	26	25	26

On the other hand there is no real effort to reduce the corruption either in both countries.

As for a raise of neo-nazis.
http://thehill.com/opinion/international/359609-the-reality-of-neo-nazis-in-the-ukraine-is-far-from-kremlin-propaganda

There are indeed neo-Nazi formations in Ukraine. This has been overwhelmingly confirmed by nearly every major Western outlet. The fact that analysts are able to dismiss it as propaganda disseminated by Moscow is profoundly disturbing. It is especially disturbing given the current surge of neo-Nazis and white supremacists across the globe.
The odious Russian media tried to paint Ukraine as a land of Nazis, though that is patently wrong. Ukraine has a thriving Jewish community, and its far-right is still on the fringe.

In Russia there is the Russian National Unity.
They are very much the same as the Azov movement in Ukraine!
http://anton-shekhovtsov.blogspot.se/2014/08/neo-nazi-russian-national-unity-in.html

Ukrainian media: Ukrainian police in Kiev is afraid of radical nationalists and declared "force majeure" for refusing to guard offices of Russian organizations which now often is under attacks of radicals.

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fstrana.ua%2Fnews%2F124678-politsija-snjala-okhranu-s-ofisa-rossotrudnichestva-v-kieve.html&edit-text=

P.S. Sorry for the Google translation. For example, "a Bulgarian" in text is really an angle grinder. :-)