The war in Ukraine continues and hundreds of men continue to volunteer and be recruited into the Ukrainian armed forces. An article in Uk. Pravda writes about the toll that this is taking on Ukrainians across the country, going about their daily life and/or living a life that has forever been changed since Maidan: If you could hear their whispering conversations in the dark… about life, about grief, about joy.
They are thinking of you, nameless people, whose faces they never saw. About your future, about your children, about their mothers.
Tomorrow they will give their lives in the in the vortex of destiny, the crushing mill of war. Many of them won’t come back.
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Vitalyi Naida, head of SBU’s counter-intelligence (Security Service of Ukraine, SBU) stated that Russian intelligence have falsified images from the MH17 crash site in Donetsk region. Ukrainian satellite imagery and compared it to the Russian alleged fakes. Russia had presented their satellite images as part of their 'co-operation' with the international investigation team. Russia maintains that Kyiv shot down MH17, and they presented these falsified images to “prove” that Ukrainian forces shot down the Malaysian airliner. This is by no means the first account of Russian media and government documents using false photographs and photoshopped images. More here translated article from Ukraynska Pravda.
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Europe’s leading media have called upon politicians to stop appeasing the Russian President Vladimir Putin. This call was made by the editor in chief of the Polish Gazeta Wyborcza Adam Michnik in a letter reprinted by 12 leading European publications. Among them are El País (Spain), La Stampa (Italy), Le Monde (France), Die Welt (Germany), Denník SME (Slovakia), Der Standard(Austria), De Volkskrant (Netherlands), Hospodarske Noviny (Czech Republic) ,Dario de Noticias (Portugal), Lietuvos Rytas (Lithuania). A number of mainstream media have initiated a discussion of this letter, such as the largest Estonian portal Delfi, “Dielli” in Albania and “Timpul” in Moldova:
Europe will forever be ashamed of having closed their eyes to the annexation of Austria, Czechoslovakia, and the Baltic states. Nobody spoke as beautifully about peace and people’s rights as Hitler and Stalin. Conversely, nobody caused as many war crimes as those two dictators. Today, Europe remains silent toward the aggressive imperialist policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The West tolerates a rebellious policy which explicitly violates the sovereignty of other countries: Moldova, Latvia, Georgia, and above all, Ukraine.
Experience teaches us that dialogue with Putin is a waste of time if it is not backed up by unity and firmness. He does not care about the weak and those lacking in will, which is exactly how he currently perceives the member states of the EU. They waste words and try to impress the Kremlin with more red lines. Putin is still supplying mercenaries with weapons and amassing troops along the Ukrainian border, but Ukrainians have the right to choose the path of European democratic standards; they have the right to live in an honest country. Perhaps today the future of the EU is about to be decided in Eastern Ukraine. Read more here.
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In Luhansk, as a result of the clashes, 85% of the population is disconnected from the power supply and the water supply has been disrupted by the loss of energy at pumping stations, according to the press service of the Luhansk city council: 'This is the third night that as a result of the accident at the high-voltage line that delivers electricity to the Kirov substation, 85% of the city’s population is disconnected from the power supply. Today electricity is received by the medical facilities, emergency services, critical social facilities as well as a small number of users.'
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