That night, Khomchak's command post in Mnohopillya, a farming hamlet four miles south of the besieged town of Ilovaisk, came under Russian mortar fire for four hours. Of course, we hope that there is a certain margin of safety, and those, who are behind such killings, will not manage to lead to further escalation.
Taking apparent pleasure in asking if they recognize him they do , he uses a knife to cut the felt chevrons off their jackets and stuffs them into their mouths.
Branovytsky the other men by saying that he had been the machine gunner, with this meaning that he got particularly brutal treatment. Retrieved 5 March 2015.
NextAlexander Borodai and Igor Girkin, both Russian citizens, led the separatists' political and military wings until their abrupt departure in August.
Graphic Content , the dead captives are piled up along the side of the road as a correspondent for Russian state TV interviews a commander of the pro-Russian Vostok battalion who goes by the nom de guerre Dushman.
Maks Levin Shooting Gallery Yet as morning broke on August 29 and the exhausted Ukrainian fighters assembled at the small hamlet of Mnohopillya to withdraw, the conditions for the orderly retreat suddenly changed, Ukrainian officers say.
This report tells in detail for the first time the pivotal events that made up the Battle of Ilovaisk. The items appear to show an interest in a particular period of history — and whether any of it has any relevance to the investigation will doubtless form part of the inquiry led by the German authorities.
NextOn September 5, a fragile cease-fire went into effect.
Fears of escalation intensified after a bombing struck a car outside the main government building in the rebel-held city of Donetsk. Givi, who at one point brandishes a sword, throws the captives from a truck and onto the ground.
NextThe two sides fought each other to a stalemate, with the Ukrainians hunkered down to the west of the train line that bisects Ilovaisk, the rebels entrenched to the east—and a terrified civilian population caught in the ferocious crossfire.
Once in Poland, we were astonished by the beauty of the countryside.
He asserts that the guards were removed a day earlier, and that some supposed lift maintenance people had arrived soon afterwards.
The celebrations were intended to shore up support for Poroshenko, who three months before had won the presidency as the country risked being torn further apart.
READ Ukraine President proposes to meet Russian counterpart Hours after separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine ordered full military mobilization, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday, 19 February, called on Russian President Vladimir Putin for a meeting.