All last week passed under the sign of preparation for the celebration of the Victory Day.
The Republic of Donbass rehearsed the parade and held back an increasing number of Ukrainian nationalists on the frontline. In Ukraine, its citizens invited each other to the march of the «Immortal Regiment», and the Nazis threatened them with all kinds of punishments, including physical assault.
On May 6, the «Immortal Regiment» march takes place in almost 20 US cities, with more than 4,000 people taking part in it.
The next day, May 7, the Baltic Fleet ships suddenly leave the water area of the Neva because of a destroyer of the US Navy, which approached the inland waters of Russia to a distance sufficient for a potential missile strike.
On the same day, Italian investigators come to the conclusion that the shelling from the Ukrainian side, which led to the death of the photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli in Donbass, was deliberate.
In the DPR on this day, most of the bombardments from the Ukrainian side falls on the Donetsk direction. The shelling is conducted with 122mm artillery and 82mm and 120mm mortars and lead to a civilian wounded and 4 residential buildings damaged.
In the Mariupol direction, the Ukrainian side continues to use tanks in the shelling. Only on one of the localities in the south of the DPR, the Ukrainian military make 10 rounds from tanks and 5 from anti-tank missile systems.
On the Gorlovka direction, as a result of the direct hit of a grenade launched by the Ukrainian side, a house is completely burned down.
Kiev also continues to deliver nationalist battalions to the frontline. According to the DPR intelligence, the «Azov» units arrive in the Donetsk area, presumably to maintain discipline in the ranks of the Ukrainian army.
In addition, also according to the intelligence, southward, there is a clash between nationalists from the «Azov» and Georgian mercenaries from the Dzhokhar Dudayev battalion, as a result of which the «Azov» loses 2 soldiers killed and 6 wounded, the losses of the Georgian mercenaries amount to 3 men killed and 7 wounded.
Apparently, the reason for the clash is the redistribution of spheres of influence over the smuggling flows across the frontline. However, the DPR military authorities note that the conflict between Ukrainian nationalists and Georgian mercenaries began as early as 2014, on the basis of national dislike.
The «hot line» of the LPR Ministry of Internal Affairs receives a call from Severodonetsk, controlled by Kiev, in which a local female resident reports sexual harassment of women of all ages by Georgian mercenaries.
On a strange coincidence, on the same day, the OSCE mission reports sexual harassment to a representative of international observers by an ‘indefinite armed man in military uniform’, while the observers were driving a mission car along the DPR frontline territory.
The ATO headquarters officially confirm the information, voiced earlier by the DPR military authorities, about an outbreak of AIDS and HIV in the Ukrainian army. The number of HIV-infected Ukrainian military is already 224 people.
In addition, the Ukrainian side unilaterally interrupts the verification of prisoners, conducted by the DPR representatives on the Kiev-controlled territory.
On May 6, the maximum number of Bombardments in the DPR is also recorded in the Donetsk direction. The Ukrainian side shells with tanks and mortars, as a result of which two houses are damaged.
During the attacks, a pregnant woman receives a wound in the abdominal cavity before she reaches the shelter. The woman is taken to hospital, but doctors are not able to save her baby.
Another woman is wounded on the same day by the sighting of a Ukrainian sniper.
On the Kiev-controlled territory of the Lugansk region, on the eve of the Victory Day, the action «Down with the St. George ribbon» is held, during which schoolchildren are forced to make red poppies - a symbol of the memory of American soldiers who died in the First World War.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine, in Odessa, massively appear leaflets with an invitation to the townspeople to come to the action «Immortal Regiment».
In Nikolaev, the nationalists claim the preparation of Molotov cocktails for May 9.
In Berdyansk, a march of about 1,000 «Azov» radicals with weapons and fireworks is held, during which calls for the murder of Russians are again massively voiced.
The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine declares that on the Victory Day, law enforcers will not allow ‘any anti-Ukrainian symbols and statements’ which ‘will be severely suppressed’.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Industry of Ukraine announces that the property of the largest in Ukraine Zaporozhye Automobile Plant will be sold for debts.
On May 5, at least 15 houses are damaged in the DPR during the shelling from the Ukrainian side.
In addition, the Ukrainian military shell with tanks an observation point of the JCCC (Joint Center for Coordination and Control).
The head of the DPR, Alexander Zakharchenko, says at a press conference that Ukraine has passed a point of no return, since its industry is completely destroyed.
The Head of the Republic also declares that, in view of Ukraine's intentions to close the Donetsk railway, the DPR will render all-round assistance to the laid-off railway workers.
On the same day, the Ukrainian media publish a video of the destruction of the OSCE vehicle, which occurred on April 23. the LPR MGB (Ministry of State Security) makes a statement that the analysis of the video indicates that the survey was conducted from the Kiev-controlled territory and the video is most likely to be a report about the terrorist attack conducted by Ukrainian saboteurs.
On May 4, in the DPR, the number of bombardments from the Ukrainian side is substantially increased in the Donetsk direction. Moreover, the Ukrainian military shell the Donetsk airport and the front-line locality of Spartak with 152mm artillery and MLRS «Grad».
Two houses and a boiler house are damaged as a result of the bombardments.
Also in the Donetsk direction, 4 Ukrainian drones are recorded, which are spotting the artillery fire.
The DPR military authorities believe that the increase in the intensity of shelling from the Ukrainian side is due to Kiev's desire to provoke return fire from the side of the Republic during the European Commission’s stay in the ATO zone.
In the LPR, the number of attacks from the Ukrainian side also almost triples in comparison with previous days.
At the same time, according to the Ukrainian edition of the «Book of Memory of the Perished for Ukraine», as of March 1, 2017, the number of the Ukrainian military killed in Donbass amounted to 758 men aged 19-25, 1,195 men aged 26-35 and 1.073 men aged 36-45.
These data are likely to be far from complete, however, even from them, it can be seen that the Kiev authorities destroy not only the population of Donbass, but also the most able-bodied citizens of Ukraine.
As for the still working population of Ukraine, they are methodically deprived of means of subsistence. Miners of 5 mines on the Kiev-controlled territory of Donbass remain underground and announce a strike, demanding the payment of a multi-month wage arrears.
Meanwhile, the US authorities have prepared a document on material and financial assistance to Ukraine, a large part of which is the supply of non-lethal weapons and means for the Ukrainian army needs. The document particularly specifies that these funds should not be transferred to the «Azov» Nazi regiment.
The US Senator McCain says that, together with his colleagues, he will look for ‘other ways’ of imposing new sanctions against Russia.
On May 3, the Ukrainian side leads the most intensive shelling, with 122mm artillery, tanks and mortars, in the Donetsk direction.
As a result of the shelling, a civilian is killed and three residential houses are damaged.
In the LPR, another Ukrainian subversive is destroyed, with three saboteurs killed and one wounded and managing to disappear on the Kiev-controlled territory. The MGB of the Republic begins an investigation into their involvement in blowing up the OSCE car on April 23, as near the bodies of the killed means to make explosives are found.
the LPR also holds tactical exercises on the actions of the Republican army units in the defense and offensive.
Meanwhile, in Ukraine, in Nikolaev, throughout the city, there are posted leaflets with an invitation to residents of the city to take part in the «Immortal Regiment» march on May 9.
The «Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists» (an organization recognized as terrorist in Russia) declares its intention to prevent the «Immortal Regiment» action in Kiev, which they threaten to turn into a «Mortal Regiment».
On the Ukrainian army base in Lvov, instructors from Canada begin to train the Ukrainian military ‘to use force’. The training course is built on NATO techniques.
On May 2, in the DPR, the Donetsk direction still remains under the most intensive mortar shelling, while in the Gorlovka direction the Ukrainian side uses 122mm artillery.
As a result of the shelling, two civilians are wounded in Donetsk, another one is burned in the fire of a residential house, which breaks out as a result of the shelling. In addition, 12 residential houses and a school are damaged in the near front district of Donetsk.
On the outskirts of Gorlovka, during the detonation of an explosive device installed by Ukrainian saboteurs, a woman receives multiple shrapnel wounds, of which she subsequently dies in hospital.
The Ukrainian military conduct the targeted shelling of the DFP (Donetsk Filtration Plant), as a result of which the station is again de-energized.
Later, the DPR intelligence reports that the plant was shelled by the right-wing nationalists of the «Right Sector», who also deliberately damages the power lines in the Kiev-controlled territory. The Ukrainian media promptly documented the damage to the power lines and presented it to the European Union official delegation that arrived in this secgemt of the front, as a result of the shelling by the DPR.
In addition, according to local residents, in the part of Kiev-controlled Zaytsevo on the northern outskirts of Gorlovka, unknown persons in military uniform set fire to several houses, near which several explosions also occurred. Earlier, representatives of the Ukrainian media were seen in this area.
Also, according to the DPR intelligence, units of the National Guard of Ukraine arrive along the entire front line, in order to assist the commanders of the Ukrainian army units in the execution of their orders, since soldiers are already openly demonstrating disobedience to them.
According to the LPR intelligence, a battalion of the «Right Sector» arrives in the Lugansk segment of the front, with its military beating up three local residents on the first day of their stay in one of the localities.
Meanwhile, at a meeting with the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, in Sochi, the German Chancellor Merkel says that a new agreement on resolving the crisis in Ukraine is inexpedient.
On May 9, despite the intensification of bombardments in Donbass and the threat of the Nazis to turn the «Immortal Regiment» into a ‘mortal’ one in Kiev, to record the faces of all participants and to deal with them afterwards in Odessa, to burn them with Molotov cocktails in Nikolaev, the «Immortal Regiment» march took place throughout in Donbass and Ukraine.
According to various sources, both Ukrainian and those of the march organizers, from 600,000 to 1 million people took part in it in Ukraine. Everywhere, during the marches, the slogan ‘Fascism shall not pass!’ sounded.
Against the background of such mass marches, the Nazis’ attempts to prevent the march looked particularly miserable. Moreover, in many cities, they faced strong resistance from both the participants and, for the first time in three years after the coup, from the Ukrainian police.
The next day, repressions began on the part of the Maydan authorities, but the dismissed chief of police in Dnepropetrovsk refused to apologize to the Nazis beaten by the police officers, and said that now ‘he is not ashamed to look people in the eyes’.
On May 9, 2017, there appeared a glimmer of hope in Ukraine.
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