Republished from Global Research, RIA Novosti. See also: Serbian Volunteers Destroy Ukrainian Artillery in Donetsk Region (12/8/14, RIA Novosti), Donetsk Militia Defend Ilovaisk, Ukrainian Armed Forces Sustain Losses (15/8/14, RIA Novosti), Moscow Slams Kiev's Use of Aircraft, Heavy Weaponry Against Civilians as Unacceptable (15/8/14, RIA Novosti).
DONETSK – Ukrainian servicemen largely switch sides to join the independence supporters of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, DPR’s Prime Minister Alexander Zakharchenko said Saturday.
“One of the commanders of the 25th Airborne Brigade took his infantry combat vehicle and switched to our side. As of today, he has assumed command of the troop. And such cases are numerous,” Zakharchenko said, adding he expected more brigades to yield themselves prisoners.
The prime minister and former battalion commander explained the mass switches to the militia side saying the Ukrainian forces did not understand “why they are here, what they are fighting for and what they are dying for.”
“Whereas we fight for our land, our children, our homes. We are on our land, we have something to fight for. The moral spirit of any subdivision that fights for its home is a step above that of a subdivision fighting for money without the understanding of what it is fighting for,” he said.
In June, Ukrainian troopers from Lviv and Dnipropetrovsk fought against each other at the Luhansk airport.
Since the start of Kiev’s special operation in eastern Ukraine in mid-April, a total of 1,367 people have been killed and another 4,087 wounded, including 2,589 civilians and 29 children, according to a report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). At least 117,000 people have been forcibly displaced.
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Sheila Newman
Thu, 2014-08-28 11:22
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Excellent article on MH17
Geoffrey Taylor
Thu, 2014-08-28 15:52
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Conclusive evidence that Ukrainian regime shot down MH17
Whilst it is not usually possible to quickly find out where the truth lies where facts about tragic disasters are disputed, in the case of MH17 we can now be as certain as we can be about much in recorded history, that flight MH17 was shot down by Ukrainian fighter planes and not by anti-Kiev rebels with a surface-to-air missile supplied by Russia as has been claimed by the United States regime, its European puppets, NATO and the presstitute media.
Within some of the the articles listed below can be found articles which prove that the Ukrainian regime and not Vladimir Putin are guilty of the murder of 298 passengers and crew of Flight MH17 on 17 August 2014. See also artcles on candobetter about Ukraine and MH17 particularly Malaysian Mainstream Media: MH17 was downed by a Military Aircraft, "Cannon Fire from Fighter Jet" (9/8/14) and the articles linked to from there.
US Appeals to "Law of the Jungle" in MH17 Case (July 14) by Tony Cartalucci, US Intelligence: No Evidence Russia Did It (23/7/14) by Paul Craig Roberts, Capitalizing on MH17 (July 2014) by Tony Cartalucci, Kiev sabotaging probe into downed Malaysian plane – self-defense leader, Moscow blasts Kiev's false accusations and lack of cooperation with air crash investigators, Perverted truth: How rebel mourning MH17 victims was turned into looter with trophy, Putin: Taskforce at Malaysia MH17 crash site not enough, full-scale international team needed () by ,MH17 Verdict: Real Evidence Points to US-Kiev Cover-up of Failed False Flag (25/7/14) by 21st Century Wire, etc.
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