{"id":78938,"date":"2017-09-12T10:29:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T10:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=60248"},"modified":"2017-09-13T16:56:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T13:56:05","slug":"60248-ubersicht-der-ukrainischen-presse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/60248-ubersicht-der-ukrainischen-presse","title":{"rendered":"Georgian President invading Ukraine, UN peacekeepers in Donbas, Russia’s punitive justice, and more – Weekly Update on Ukraine #30, 5 – 11 September 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Situation in the combat zone\"\"<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Escalation at the frontline<\/strong>. The situation in the combat zone keeps escalating, Russia-backed militants continue using Minsk-proscribed weapons more and more often. Ukrainian troops<\/a> have to return fire in response to constant hostile attacks.<\/p>\n

Russian troops and weapons in Donbas. <\/strong>InformNapalm<\/a>, a Ukrainian OSINT group, identified nine contract servicemen of the 8th<\/sup> brigade of the Russian Federation Armed Forces who were fighting in eastern Ukraine in summer and autumn of 2014. Leonid Kalashnikov<\/a>, MP of the Russian Duma, said that Russia \u201cwill have to\u201d openly supply the weapons in Donbas, if the Ukrainian Armed Forces get weapons from their western allies.<\/p>\n

OSCE. <\/strong>Chief Monitor of the OSCE<\/a> Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) Ertugrul Apakan emphasized that in the first six months of 2017 75 per cent of the cases when the SMM freedom of movement was limited took place in the occupied part of Donbas controlled by Russia-backed militants.<\/p>\n

UN peacekeepers in Donbas. <\/strong>Last week the Ukrainian delegation to the UN<\/a> passed for consideration to the UN Security Council a draft resolution on the deployment of the peacekeepers in Donbas. On September, 5 Russian President Vladimir Putin also tasked the Foreign Affairs Minister to present a resolution on peacekeepers in Donbas to the UN Security Council. The fact that the Kremlin brings up the topic of the peacekeeping mission in Donbas<\/a> points to the changes and may open some possibilities. \u201cTo be sure, the version of the peacekeeping mission Putin proposes is a distinct non-starter. He wants a light force along the contact line between his separatist forces and the rest of Ukraine. That casts the conflict as an internal Ukrainian affair, providing cover for Russia\u2019s forces there as well as for its control of the international border,\u201d says Carl Bildt, former Foreign Affairs Minister of Sweden in his article for the Washington Post.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s Foreign Affairs Minister Pavlo Klimkin<\/a> called the Kremlin\u2019s option of deploying the peacekeepers a manipulation. \u201cThe attempt to deploy the peacekeepers only along the contact line is the way to freeze the actual state of play. We see Russia\u2019s striving to legalize its colony, its protectorate in the occupied part of Donbas,\u201d Klimkin said. The draft resolution of the Russian Federation<\/a> on the deployment of a UN peacekeeping mission to Donbas was not supported by the UN Security Council members.<\/p>\n

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Life in the \u201cDPR\u201d and \u201cLPR\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Militants have confirmed holding captive the Ukrainian journalist Vasin.<\/strong> Representatives of the \u201cDPR\u201d and \u201cLPR\u201d confirmed that journalist Stanislav Aseyev (Vasin) is in the list of persons for the exchange, reported<\/a> Iryna Herashchenko, Ukraine\u2019s representative to the Trilateral Contact Group negotiating in Minsk.<\/p>\n

Connection with the Donetsk-based blogger<\/a> and contributor to the radio Donbas.Realii Stanislav Vasin was lost on June 2<\/a>. Earlier, representatives of the \u201cDPR\u201d and \u201cLPR\u201d were claiming that they have no information on his whereabouts<\/a>. A series of human rights and journalist rights organizations launched an appeal calling to find out where he was and release him in case he was held captive. The organizations include the journalists\u2019 union of Ukraine and that of Russia<\/a>, Reporters Without Borders<\/a>, Committee to Protect Journalists, Amnesty International<\/a> as well as the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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How Saakashvili came back to Ukraine<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Political show. <\/strong>On September 10, former head of Odesa region and ex-president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili crossed into Ukraine without required documents. Earlier on that day, he tried to cross the border on board of the train Przemysl-Kyiv (from Poland), however the Ukrainian railway\u00a0company Ukrzaliznytsia stopped the train. Saakashvili approached the border on the bus. Following long negotiations, the crowd literary brought him into the Ukrainian side. He was escorted by Ukrainian MPs among whom was Yuliya Tymoshenko.<\/p>\n

Saakashvili said he would be asking for an ID of a stateless person that would make it obligatory for the Ukrainian side to let him in. However, the politician\u2019s supporters speeded up the process by breaking through the border. Later Saakashvili said that he was heading to Lviv, where he would decide on what to do next.<\/p>\n

It all started on July 26, when President Petro Poroshenko stripped Saakashvili off the Ukrainian citizenship<\/a> with a decree. The formal pretext for the action became the fact that Saakashvili allegedly had not presented the information on the criminal proceeding opened against him in Georgia. The Ministry of Justice of Georgia hopes that Ukraine will extradite Saakashvili<\/a> after he is back in the country. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine confirmed it had received the request from the partner agency in Georgia regarding the extradition of Saakashvili<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement response. <\/strong>Ukraine\u2019s Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said that those responsible for the illegal crossing of the border<\/a> during which Saakashvili got into Ukraine will be held criminally liable. The State Border Guard Service reported that several border guards and policemen were injured during the breakthrough<\/a>. The Ministry of Interior elaborated<\/a> that 12 policemen and five border guards were injured. Minister of Interior Arsen Avakov said that Mikheil Saakashvili has to complete the border control procedures either at the Shehyni border crossing point or at the office of the Migration Service.<\/p>\n

Public reaction<\/strong>. <\/strong>The return of the politician became a scandal. Politicians, opinion leaders, journalists and experts were discussing the event all day long. Many of them condemned Saakashvili\u2019s actions \u2013 with his voluntaristic gesture the politician undermined the idea of the state border. He thus demonstrated that a group of unarmed persons may cross the border without any obstacles. It is not that much important whether the border in question is in the east or in the west. Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman called it \u201can attack against the Ukrainian statehood\u201d, President\u2019s Envoy on the peaceful settlement of the conflict in Donetsk and Luhansk regions Iryna Herashchenko called it \u201chumiliation of the country\u201d. However, many pointed to the fact that Saakashvili\u2019s actions come as a response to how Saakashvili was deprived of the citizenship in a voluntaristic and politically motivated way by President Poroshenko. Moreover, many of the actions that the Ukrainian authorities took to on September 10 violate the Ukrainian legislation including the illegal train stop with Saakashvili on board, closing the border due to the alleged \u201cmining\u201d of the border crossing point etc. The situation now extends beyond legality and has reached political standoff that generally does not contribute to the benefit of Ukrainian society.<\/p>\n

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Crimea: Russian court sentences Akhtem Chyigoz to eight years in a maximum-security colony<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Akhtem Chyigoz, deputy head of Mejlis \u2013 the highest representative body of Crimean Tatars, was arrested by the de-facto Crimean authorities in January 2015. On February 26, 2014, he took part in the rally in support of Ukraine\u2019s territorial integrity in front of the Crimea\u2019s Parliament. Supporters of Ukraine\u2019s unity were opposed by Russia-backed activists including the ones from the \u201cRusskoye Yedinstvo\u201d (Russian unity) party. De-facto authorities of the annexed Crimea charged Chyigoz with a public order crime.<\/p>\n

Security was reinforced<\/a> at the Supreme Court building in Crimea in the morning of September 11 where the sentence to Chyigoz was announced. Additional police forces were deployed and metal detectors were installed.\"\"<\/p>\n

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Human rights: Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov transferred between prisons<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ukrainian film director, political prisoner Oleg Sentsov, was transferred to an unknown place from the Irkutsk prison where he had been sent to earlier. It was reported by his lawyer Dmytro Dinze. Talking to human rights defenders Sentsov said he was not aware of the reason why he had been transferred<\/a> from the Sakha Republic (Yakutia).\"\"<\/p>\n

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Culture: Publishers\u2019 forum \u2013 book fair and literature festival in Lviv<\/strong><\/h3>\n

This week Lviv is to host one of the key book-related events of the Central and Eastern Europe \u2013 the \u201cPublishers\u2019 Forum in Lviv<\/a>\u201d. The event offers the program designed for both publishers and industry professionals, as well as a literary program that will see writers meet the wider audience. The Forum has a traditional section with the focus on poetry. Poets<\/a> from Lithuania, Slovakia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, and the US will be featured in it, including Marie Ilja\u0161enko, Czech poet of Ukrainian origin, Nathalie Handal, poet of Palestinian origin, Lithuanian poets Marius Burokas and Sara Poisson. Other international guests of the forum include Philippe Sands (the UK), Henry Marsh (the UK), Hanna Krall (Poland), Peter Watson (Canada), Karl-Markus Gau\u00df (Austria), Witold Szab\u0142owski (Poland), as well as 50 more authors from 25 countries. Among the Ukrainian participants of the forum, there will be Serhiy Zhadan, Lyubko Deresh, Oksana Zabuzhko, Natalka Snyadanko etc. Follow the Forum\u2019s program and events here<\/a>.\"\"<\/p>\n

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Sport: Ukrainian boxer Usyk defends the Champion\u2019s title<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk won<\/a> with a technical knockout over German boxer Marco Huck in the quarter final of the World Boxing Super Series and defended the WBO champion\u2019s title. The Ukrainian boxer kept the leading role during the entire fight and starting from the third round he was confidently attacking the opponent. In the tenth round, Usyk conducted a massive attack compelling the referee to stop the fight.\"\"<\/p>\n

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Our selection of English-language materials by Ukrainian media<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Reportage <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201dGroysman slams Saakashvili\u2019s act\u201d<\/a> – UNIAN<\/p>\n

\u201dHumiliation of Ukraine: Herashchenko comments on Saakashvili breaking through Ukrainian border\u201d<\/a> – UNIAN<\/p>\n

Opinion<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201dMilitary exercises in Ukraine as \u2018apple of discord\u2019 for Moldovan authorities\u201d<\/a> \u2013 the column of Taras Berezovets for UNIAN<\/p>\n

Analytical materials <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201dWhat Russian \u2018peacekeepers\u2019 want\u201d<\/a> – UNIAN<\/p>\n

\u201dBorderline chaos: what\u2019s behind Ukraine\u2019s Saakashvili circus\u201d<\/a> – Hromadske International<\/p>\n

\u201dPutin\u2019s comment on sending UN Peacekeepers to Donbas, explained”<\/a> – Hromadske International<\/p>\n

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