Early in the morning hours, there was a provocation with shooting (rubber bullets) in Maidan. Two groups of 40 masked people (wearing balaclavas) carried out attacks from the direction of Shevchenko Lane and Hrinchenko St. : “Attackers hid their faces with balaclavas. Companies [of Maidan Self-defense] raised by the alarm drove the attackers away'. During the past few days there have been attacks against LGBT groups and a newspaper editor. It is suspected that those involves are: the Social-National Assembly / “Patriot of Ukraine” / Misanthropic Division and “White Hammer” [source, Anton Shekhovstov FB, Researcher, University College London and Editor,Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies]
**Ukraine seems to be gaining confidence in the military offensive against the pro-Russian groups throughout Eastern Ukraine. Gaining back Slovyansk on the weekend was a turning point of success. Poroshenko named a new chief of military operations in the east following his appointment of an aggressive new defence minister. Demands continue to the separatists lay down their arms. Donetsk mayor, Olexander Lukyanchenko, has urged Poroshenko not use air strikes or heavy artillery to crush the rebels. Similarly Akhmetov (Ukraine's richest man, coal-and-steel magnate) made a similar appeal today.
Although the government is not considering more unilateral ceasefires for the time being, Poroshenko has made it clear that the door is open for indirect peace talks with separatist leaders. He has named a possible venue in a government-controlled monastery-town in the east (Svyatohirsk). In response, Alexander Borodai, prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, told a Russian online newspaper, 'we're not preparing ourselves for a siege. We are preparing ourselves for action.'
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Global Mistral Protest Announced:
On the 14th of July, Bastille Day, rallies will be held over the world in order to denounce the opaque but tight military alliance between France and Russia, a totalitarian state with imperialistic views. We will request that Mr. Hollande not deliver the Mistral invasion vessels to Russia, that he look for alternative solutions, and cancel the training of 400 Russian sailors by the French Navy. Our protest will be part of a larger group of protests that have been held around the world for several weeks to denounce this contract, and which express the deep concern of the international community regarding this shameful collaboration ignoring the founding values of the French Republic. On Bastille day we will demand France to remember those values! 
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