The genocide in Ukraine 2014-2015

This article by investigative reporter Olga Luzanova provides photographic and video evidence of the impacts of Kiev regime bombings directed against residential areas and schools in Donbass.
Civilians have been deliberately targeted.  
These war crimes have  been ignored by the mainstream media. They been not been acknowledged by  the UN Human Rights Commission. 
The fundamental rights of children have been blatantly violated by the US sponsored Kiev regime in derogation of international law.  

Photos and video footage by Olga Luzanova
We recall that last October, President Petro Poroshenko contrasted the prospects for Ukrainians with those of the people from the Donbass region during a speech in Odessa. In particular, the President promised:

“Our children will go to schools and kindergartens, while theirs will be holed up in basements!”

Thus far, the Ukrainian government has been doing its best to keep its word. Here is one of the children sitting in a basement in accordance with the Ukrainian President’s will.
Photos and video footage by Olga Luzanova
Article edited by @GBabeuf
The Acting Commander of the Perevalsk Command offered me a short tour of a little town which just happened to be in the immediate vicinity of the front-line. The Ukrainian forces had been firing towards the residential district of the town right up until the day when the Militia had mopped up Debaltsevo. We took the road which I knew very well. We drove through the town where I could see the consequences of the shelling all around. We approached the school from its rear and saw there a football pitch with a huge crater in the middle of it. Then we saw another crater from an Uragan missile near the school.


 http://www.globalresearch.ca/crimes-against-humanity-ukraine-president-poroshenko-keeps-his-word-weve-bombed-the-schools-donbass-children-dont-go-to-school/5439926

 Forty three people were reported dead officially by Kiev. According to the witnesses, and even some politicians the real data concealed by Ukrainian government reaches over a hundred people burnt alive and murdered, and two hundred forty-seven people injured on that day. R.I.P.
http://slavyangrad.org/2015/05/05/r-i-p-ukraine-may-2-2014/

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By Melissa Jones —

In February 2015, millions of peaceful people are living in hell in eastern Ukraine while the national government starves, freezes and murders them because it benefits the New World Order. The Kiev government and United Nations investigators have been hiding reports of genocide, claiming that between April 2014 and February 4, 2015 the overall death toll in the bloody civil war in Ukraine stands at 5,358.

A source from German intelligence, however, told the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that “Germany’s special services estimate the probable number of deceased Ukrainian servicemen and civilians at up to 50,000 people. This figure is about 10 times higher than official data. Official figures are clearly too low and not credible.”

To hear the truth, this writer talked to people living within the “anti-terrorist operation,” or ATO Zone.

One person from Donetsk, which is home to more than 1 million, told AMERICAN FREE PRESS:

“Everybody has faced tragedy from this war. Among my friends and acquaintances and their friends and acquaintances, there is nobody unaffected by it. People have lost parents. Somebody lost a house. Somebody was injured and lost a leg or an eye. Neighbors of my friends have been killed in bombings. The whole family—a couple with two children. It is awful. . . . The scariest thing is that nobody is willing to stop it.”

Human rights groups and the media aren’t telling the truth, so most people don’t know about the genocide being documented live on the Internet by people trapped in the ATO Zone.

- See more at: http://americanfreepress.net/?p=22798#sthash.MutjKumW.dpuf

By Melissa Jones —

In February 2015, millions of peaceful people are living in hell in eastern Ukraine while the national government starves, freezes and murders them because it benefits the New World Order. The Kiev government and United Nations investigators have been hiding reports of genocide, claiming that between April 2014 and February 4, 2015 the overall death toll in the bloody civil war in Ukraine stands at 5,358.

A source from German intelligence, however, told the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that “Germany’s special services estimate the probable number of deceased Ukrainian servicemen and civilians at up to 50,000 people. This figure is about 10 times higher than official data. Official figures are clearly too low and not credible.”

To hear the truth, this writer talked to people living within the “anti-terrorist operation,” or ATO Zone.

One person from Donetsk, which is home to more than 1 million, told AMERICAN FREE PRESS:

“Everybody has faced tragedy from this war. Among my friends and acquaintances and their friends and acquaintances, there is nobody unaffected by it. People have lost parents. Somebody lost a house. Somebody was injured and lost a leg or an eye. Neighbors of my friends have been killed in bombings. The whole family—a couple with two children. It is awful. . . . The scariest thing is that nobody is willing to stop it.”

Human rights groups and the media aren’t telling the truth, so most people don’t know about the genocide being documented live on the Internet by people trapped in the ATO Zone.

- See more at: http://americanfreepress.net/?p=22798#sthash.MutjKumW.dpuf

By Melissa Jones —

In February 2015, millions of peaceful people are living in hell in eastern Ukraine while the national government starves, freezes and murders them because it benefits the New World Order. The Kiev government and United Nations investigators have been hiding reports of genocide, claiming that between April 2014 and February 4, 2015 the overall death toll in the bloody civil war in Ukraine stands at 5,358.

A source from German intelligence, however, told the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that “Germany’s special services estimate the probable number of deceased Ukrainian servicemen and civilians at up to 50,000 people. This figure is about 10 times higher than official data. Official figures are clearly too low and not credible.”

To hear the truth, this writer talked to people living within the “anti-terrorist operation,” or ATO Zone.

One person from Donetsk, which is home to more than 1 million, told AMERICAN FREE PRESS:

“Everybody has faced tragedy from this war. Among my friends and acquaintances and their friends and acquaintances, there is nobody unaffected by it. People have lost parents. Somebody lost a house. Somebody was injured and lost a leg or an eye. Neighbors of my friends have been killed in bombings. The whole family—a couple with two children. It is awful. . . . The scariest thing is that nobody is willing to stop it.”

Human rights groups and the media aren’t telling the truth, so most people don’t know about the genocide being documented live on the Internet by people trapped in the ATO Zone.

By Melissa Jones —

In February 2015, millions of peaceful people are living in hell in eastern Ukraine while the national government starves, freezes and murders them because it benefits the New World Order. The Kiev government and United Nations investigators have been hiding reports of genocide, claiming that between April 2014 and February 4, 2015 the overall death toll in the bloody civil war in Ukraine stands at 5,358.

A source from German intelligence, however, told the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that “Germany’s special services estimate the probable number of deceased Ukrainian servicemen and civilians at up to 50,000 people. This figure is about 10 times higher than official data. Official figures are clearly too low and not credible.”

To hear the truth, this writer talked to people living within the “anti-terrorist operation,” or ATO Zone.

One person from Donetsk, which is home to more than 1 million, told AMERICAN FREE PRESS:

“Everybody has faced tragedy from this war. Among my friends and acquaintances and their friends and acquaintances, there is nobody unaffected by it. People have lost parents. Somebody lost a house. Somebody was injured and lost a leg or an eye. Neighbors of my friends have been killed in bombings. The whole family—a couple with two children. It is awful. . . . The scariest thing is that nobody is willing to stop it.”

Human rights groups and the media aren’t telling the truth, so most people don’t know about the genocide being documented live on the Internet by people trapped in the ATO Zone.

- See more at: http://americanfreepress.net/?p=22798#sthash.MutjKumW.dpuf

By Melissa Jones —

In February 2015, millions of peaceful people are living in hell in eastern Ukraine while the national government starves, freezes and murders them because it benefits the New World Order. The Kiev government and United Nations investigators have been hiding reports of genocide, claiming that between April 2014 and February 4, 2015 the overall death toll in the bloody civil war in Ukraine stands at 5,358.

A source from German intelligence, however, told the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung that “Germany’s special services estimate the probable number of deceased Ukrainian servicemen and civilians at up to 50,000 people. This figure is about 10 times higher than official data. Official figures are clearly too low and not credible.”

To hear the truth, this writer talked to people living within the “anti-terrorist operation,” or ATO Zone.

One person from Donetsk, which is home to more than 1 million, told AMERICAN FREE PRESS:

“Everybody has faced tragedy from this war. Among my friends and acquaintances and their friends and acquaintances, there is nobody unaffected by it. People have lost parents. Somebody lost a house. Somebody was injured and lost a leg or an eye. Neighbors of my friends have been killed in bombings. The whole family—a couple with two children. It is awful. . . . The scariest thing is that nobody is willing to stop it.”

Human rights groups and the media aren’t telling the truth, so most people don’t know about the genocide being documented live on the Internet by people trapped in the ATO Zone.

- See more at: http://americanfreepress.net/?p=22798#sthash.MutjKumW.dpuf

 To mislead the public, experts and reporters call the catastrophe “a conflict” between the Ukrainian army and “pro-Russian separatists.” Residents assert that the region’s peaceful population is being murdered on purpose, with hundreds killed or injured daily.

A 34-year-old mother wrote on February 3:

“I badly want everyone to know that the Ukrainian government wants to wipe us off the face of the Earth. They are demolishing our homes and killing our children and old folks at bus stops, in buses, in hospitals, in homes. Our children sit at home and in shelters. And they don’t show this on TV. You can only see this on the Internet. And if now America gives Ukraine lethal weapons, we will cease to exist. Ukraine is killing us with America’s help.”

If Washington’s new puppet government in Ukraine doesn’t want to wipe out the Russian Donbass people in eastern Ukraine, then why did they make the controversial decision to starve millions by cutting off access to personal money with which to buy food and essentials?

If the Ukrainian government doesn’t want to murder as many civilians as possible, then why deny entry to charitable organizations, which can bring aid to hundreds of thousands who are at risk of starvation or injuries?

Why would the U.S. send Ukraine $1 billion in weapons when on January 29 Ukraine’s top general said that there are no Russian troops in Ukraine?

A 21-year-old with a baby born in October 2014 told AFP:

“If America sends weapons, we will be exterminated—not rebel ‘separatists’ as they consider us, but peaceful and ordinary residents of the city of Donetsk. What are we guilty of? I want to live, to raise my child and to celebrate every new quiet and peaceful day, not to cry every day and pray for survival.”

Lifesaving donations marked “For Ukraine” can be sent to the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist at 4001 17th St NW, Washington, D.C. 20011.

Melissa Jones is an independent journalist based in Virginia. She is also an activist for sound money policy and alternative health issues.

 http://americanfreepress.net/?p=22798

Moscow Warns US Not to Store Military Hardware Near Russian Border

Washington was planning to store some 1,200 pieces of heavy military equipment in Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Estonia and, possibly, in Hungary, according to media reports.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Reports pointing out at US plans to store military equipment on NATO's "eastern flank" near the Russian border indicate that Washington is aiming to undermine a key provision of the 1997 Russia-NATO Founding Act, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday.
Western media earlier reported that Washington was planning to store some 1,200 pieces of heavy military equipment, including 250 main battle tanks, in Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Estonia and, possibly, in Hungary, "to ensure continuous training on rotation basis."

"This information confirms that the United States and its allies are seriously determined to undermine the key provision of the 1997 Russia-NATO Founding Act stipulating that NATO has pledged not to deploy substantial military forces on the territory of the above-mentioned countries on a permanent basis," the ministry said in a statement.

"This move increases the risks of US military strategy on NATO's 'eastern flank' gaining the "life of its own,' in contrast with reality and political interests of the European peoples, and developing a forward momentum that will be difficult to stop," the statement said.

NATO has been increasingly building up close to Russia's borders since Crimea broke away from Ukraine and rejoined Russia last March. The bloc has accused Moscow of illegally annexing the peninsula and providing military support to eastern Ukraine's independence supporters, engaged in fighting against Kiev.
Russia has dismissed the accusations as groundless and voiced concern that NATO's military presence can only further destabilize the region.

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150615/1023401618.html 

U.S. May Position for a War Against Russia

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Eric Zuesse.

Russia Says It Will Respond If U.S. Does So

Eric Zuesse

On Saturday, June 13th, The New York Times bannered, “U.S. Is Poised to Put Heavy Weaponry in Eastern Europe,” and Russia’s response to the announcement wasn’t long in coming.

The Russian equivalent of America’s Wall Street Journal and Britain’s Financial Times, which is Kommersant (or Businessperson), headlined on June 15th, “US may redeploy heavy weapons to the borders of the Russian Federation,” and reported that, “According to sources in the Russian Government, the implementation of this plan will force Moscow to post on the border with the Baltic countries Russia’s own offensive military capability that can destroy US facilities in the event of a hypothetical conflict.”

The report in the Times had noted that, “The proposal, if approved, would represent the first time since the end of the Cold War that the United States has stationed heavy military equipment in the newer NATO member nations in Eastern Europe that had once been part of the Soviet sphere of influence.” 

The Soviet Union (and its communism, which the U.S. always said was the basis for the Cold War) ended in 1991. That was the same year when the Warsaw Pact — Russia’s equivalent of NATO — also ended. In Russia, the expectation was that that would be that — there would be no more hostility between the governments of the U.S.A. and Russia. Russian leaders had assumed this, but it turned out not to be the case. (Perhaps this explains part of the reason why it turned out not to be so: Dick Cheney’s Halliburton Corporation in the 1990s estimated that Russia has enormous oil deposits.)

The U.S. has thus been expanding NATO right up to the very borders of Russia, after the Soviet Union’s Warsaw Pact ended in 1991. (Russia did no such thing to the United States; Russia hasn’t been trying to surround the U.S. with enemy nations.) The NATO expansion started in 1999, when U.S. President Bill Clinton brought into NATO the former Warsaw Pact member-nations of Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary. Then, this threatening (if not aggressive) U.S. move, expanded even further in 2004, when U.S. President George W. Bush brought into NATO other former Warsaw Pact members: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. 

Next, in 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama brought into NATO two more former Warsaw Pact nations, Albania and Croatia. 

Finally, President Obama, in a 2014 very bloody coup d’etat, overthrew the neutralist government of Ukraine, and replaced it with a government which is filled with politicians whose political heritage goes back to the pro-Hitler and rabidly anti-Russian political movements in Ukraine during World War II, and these fascist U.S.-client politicians have many times spoken of their aim being to join NATO and — with NATO’s help — to destroy Russia. America’s threat to Russia is very real.

Russian intelligence had, even earlier than Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision on 20 November 2013 to decline membership in the EU, gotten wind of the Obama Administration’s preparations ever since the Spring of 2013, to overthrow the neutralist Yanukovych and replace him with a racist-fascist anti-Russian regime in next-door Ukraine: a bunch of nazis who are Russian-hating fascists even more than they are Jew-hating fascists. They hate the Russian people. What nation wants a rabidly hostile regime like that on its doorstep? Consequently, within even less than a month after the American coup, Russia prevented America’s planned follow-on takeover of Russia’s main naval base, which is on the then-Ukrainian island of Crimea. The Soviet dictator Nikita Khruschev had donated Crimea to Ukraine in 1954, though Crimea had always been part of Russia; and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin provided, immediately after the coup, Russian protection to Crimeans, so that they could hold their own vote on whether to rejoin with Russia. Even the hard-like anti-Russian Forbes magazine commentator, Kenneth Rapoza, headlined on 20 March 2015, “One Year After Russia Annexed Crimea, Locals Prefer Moscow To Kiev,” and he reviewed several polls, some taken by U.S.-owned polling organizations, all showing almost 100% support among Crimeans for the switch back to being Russians again and no longer being subject to rule from Kiev — especially not this Russia-hating Kiev regime. Rapoza concluded simply, “At some point, the West will have to recognize Crimea’s right to self rule.” But U.S. President Obama, and his followers within the European Union, still refuse to do that. The people of Scotland are allowed to vote on whether to secede from the UK, but the people of Crimea (who never self-identified as Ukrainians nearly to the extent they self-identified as Russians) cannot do likewise? That’s what the West’s hypocritical leaders are saying — and now a World War III could result from it.

So, Obama and the EU slapped economic sanctions on Russia (for what are actually the consequences of America’s coup); and, when the new Ukrainian Government started a bombing campaign to eliminate the inhabitants in the Donbass region of Ukraine, which had voted over 90% for Viktor Yanukovych (which is the only way to get Obama’s regime-change in Ukraine to survive future elections — i.e., to get rid of the voters there) the West then blamed Russia for assisting the residents in the Donbass region to defend themselves against the exterminationist invasion from Kiev. And President Obama still insists that Ukraine seize back both Donbass and Crimea.

And this brings us to today, and, perhaps, to the brink of a U.S.-Russian war.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of  They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of  CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity, and of  Feudalism, Fascism, Libertarianism and Economics.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/06/u-s-may-position-for-a-war-against-russia.html

Minsk Agreement 2.0 – February 12, 2015 (English)

A Set of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements

1. Immediate and comprehensive ceasefire in certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions of Ukraine and its strict implementation commencing at 00 h. 00 min. (Kiev), on February 15, 2015.

2. Withdrawal of all heavy weapons by both sides to equal distances in order to create a security zone with a width of at least 50 km between them for artillery systems with a calibre of 100 mm and more, and a security zone with a width of 70 km for MLRS and with a width of 140 km for MLRS “Tornado-S” “Uragan,” “Smerch” and tactical missile systems “Tochka” (“Tochka-U”):

– for the Ukrainian troops: from the actual line of contact;

– for the armed formations of certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions of Ukraine: from the line of contact in accordance with the Minsk Memorandum of September 19, 2014.

The withdrawal of heavy weapons set out above shall begin no later than the second day after the cease-fire and end within 14 days.

This process will be assisted by the OSCE, with the support of the Trilateral Contact Group.

3. On the part of the OSCE, to ensure effective monitoring and verification of the ceasefire and the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the first day of the withdrawal, with the use of all necessary means, including satellites, drones, radar systems and so forth.

4. On the first day following the withdrawal to begin a dialogue with respect to the modalities of the local elections in accordance with Ukrainian legislation and the Law of Ukraine “On the temporary order of local government in certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions,” as well as with respect to the future operation of these areas on the basis of the Law.

Immediately, and not later than 30 days from the date of signing of this document, to adopt a resolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with the specification of the territory covered by the special regime provided for in the Law of Ukraine “On the temporary order of local government in certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions”, [such territory] to be based on the line set out in the Minsk Memorandum of September 19, 2014

5. Provide pardons and amnesties by means of enacting a law prohibiting the prosecution and punishment of persons in connection with the events that took place in certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions of Ukraine.

5. Facilitate the release and exchange of all hostages and illegally detained persons, based on the principle of “all for all”. This process must be completed no later than the fifth day following the withdrawal.

7. Provide secure access, delivery, storage and distribution of humanitarian assistance to those in need on the basis of an international mechanism.

8. Determination of the modalities of the full restoration of the socio-economic relations, including social transfers, such as pensions and other payments (receipts and income, timely payment of all utility bills, renewal of taxation within the legal framework of Ukraine).

To this end, Ukraine shall re-establish control over the segment of its banking system in the areas affected by conflict, and it is possible that an international mechanism to facilitate such transfers will be created.

9. Restoration of full control by the government of Ukraine over the state border throughout the conflict zone, which shall begin on the first day following the local elections and be completed following a comprehensive political settlement ([to wit:] [1] local elections in certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions on the basis of the Law of Ukraine and [2] a constitutional reform) by the end of 2015, subject to the fulfilment of Paragraph 11—in consultation and by agreement with the representatives of certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions within the framework of the Trilateral Contact Group.

10. Withdrawal of all foreign armed units, military equipment, as well as mercenaries from the territory of Ukraine under the supervision of the OSCE. The disarmament of all illegal groups.

11. Passing of a constitutional reform in Ukraine with the entry into force by the end of 2015 of a new constitution, which shall incorporate decentralization as a key element (taking into account the characteristics of certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions, to be agreed upon with the representatives of these areas), as well as, before the end of 2015, adoption of permanent legislation with respect to the special status of certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions in accordance with the measures specified in Note [1].

12. On the basis of the Law of Ukraine “On the temporary order of local government in certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions”, all questions regarding local elections shall be discussed and agreed upon with the representatives of these areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions within the framework of the Trilateral Contact Group. Elections shall be held in compliance with the relevant standards of the OSCE and shall be monitored by the OSCE ODIHR.

13. To intensify the activities of the Trilateral Contact Group, including through the establishment of working groups to implement the relevant aspects of the Minsk Agreements. [These working groups] shall reflect the composition of the Trilateral Contact Group.

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Note 1:
Such measures in accordance with the Law “On the special order of local government in certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions” shall include the following:

• exemption from punishment, harassment and discrimination of individuals associated with the events that took place in certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions;

• the right to linguistic self-determination;

• participation of local governments in the appointment of the heads of prosecutorial bodies and the courts in certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions;

• ability for the central executive authorities to enter into agreements regarding economic, social and cultural development of certain regions of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions with the relevant local authorities;

• the State shall support the socio-economic development of individual regions of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions;

• facilitation by the central government of cross-border cooperation between certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions and the regions of the Russian Federation;

• establishment of units of People’s Militia by order of local councils with the goal of maintaining public order in certain areas of the Donetsk and the Lugansk regions;

• the powers of local council deputies and officers elected in early elections, to be set by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in accordance with this law, may not be terminated.

 http://slavyangrad.org/2015/02/12/minsk-agreement-2-0-february-12-2015/