According to the Ukrainian Economic Crimes Investigation Service, the superintendent of the food warehouse of one of the military units of Ministry of Defense in the Mykolayiv Region was selling American army rations through an intermediary. This comes at a time when Ukrainians are fundraising in various ways across the country to support the Ukrainian Army. Sadly, this superintendent's actions demonstrate that the country is full of people who will remain entrenched in the mindset that sanctioned corruption on every level. However, the fact that he was caught and will face criminal charges is a new improvement and change.
Journalists in Eastern Ukraine are writing of secretive movement of Russian citizens and Russian residents making their way back into Russia from Donetsk and Luhansk. For instance, according to 'Information Resistance', currently there are close to 300 Russian Cossack units concentrated in the Stanichno-Luhansk region near the border with Russia. It is suspected that the Cossacks plan to breakthrough into Russian territory at night.
Nevertheless, there continues to be movement from Russia into Ukraine. For example, during the night of June 7, a convoy of six armored personnel carriers, six KAMAZ trucks, and an artillery tank crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border. The KAMAZ went to the city of Torez and the armored vehicles are in the city of Snizhne, where a new centre of resistance to Ukrainian troops is apparently being formed.
Also, this report by Maria Turchenkova, photojournalist, has been published on Voices of Ukraine and describes how cargo was being transported across the Ukrainian border into Russia, carrying the bodies of Russian's killed in Donetsk (excerpt):
Around seven in the evening, all bodies had been loaded into the semi, and the coffins were sealed. The activists washed their hands and lit cigarettes. Nameless Russian volunteers who came to “protect Russians” in the East of Ukraine, were accompanied by silence on their last journey home in a refrigerated truck from an ice cream factory. In the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, they did everything that they considered proper for the Russians who were killed there. A DPR sticker on the coffin was supposed to tell relatives about their exploits in the Donbas. The war continues, and the activists diverge to their checkpoints.
At the Ukrainian military held checkpoint, at the Russian border, as soon as the soldier realised what was inside [the semi -- lorry], his movements instantly became sharp, his voice loud. He called other soldiers; they surrounded the car, pointed their assault rifles with safety off at the doors of the semi, and ordered the driver to open them. For a long time, the soldier did not believe his eyes, staring first at the papers for the cargo, then at the coffins inside the truck. He did not know what to do with this. The soldiers noticed our car, we suspiciously stood some distance away from the truck, observing. Now they pointed their guns at us, but after being satisfied that we were journalists, they returned to the truck.
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When you are in Donetsk, you realise that the information war being waged by the Ukrainian and Russian media has completely erased the line between reality and understanding from both sides of what is actually happening in the East of Ukraine. Only the victims of this war remain real. Not a single one of the domestic federal TV channels, which for months pushed the idea of genocide of Russians in the East of Ukraine and domination of Nazis in the West, reported the fact that 31 Russian citizens died in Donetsk on May 26. They did not explain for what feat they died, how they ended up in this war, who opens the “channel through Rostov,” who distributes firearms, and who meets the coffins with the DPR stickers. In the Ukrainian media the dead were named mercenaries and terrorists.
Turchenkova and her two colleagues tried to see the names of the bodies from the certificates that were handed to the checkpoint guards. One was Mr. Zhdanov, Sergei Borisovich, born in 1966. Tuchenkova continues:
Information about him had already appeared on the social networks. In the VKontakte group “Afghanistan. Nothing is forgotten, no one is forgotten,” it was written that he was a retired instructor from the Russian FSB Special Forces Center, a veteran of Afghanistan and Chechnya. It is also reported that on May 19 he arrived in Rostov-on-Don for military drills and was killed on May 26 in Donetsk.
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