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Russia-backed militants fired from small arms upon Chermalyk in Mariupol sector and near Maryinka. In the area of responsibility of \u201cSkhid\u201d (East) operational-tactic group they fired upon the Ukrainian troops\u2019 positions outside Shyrokyne, near Pavlopil and Krasnohorivka. In the area of responsibility of \u201cPivnich\u201d (North) operational-tactic group Russian proxies fired upon the Ukrainian troops\u2019 positions near Zolote-4. Ukrainian troops keep controlling the adversary at the contact line while adhering to the ceasefire.<\/p>\n
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Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe endorses a resolution on the escalation around the Azov Sea and the Kerch Strait \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Last week the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) passed<\/a>\u00a0a resolution<\/a>\u00a0on the escalation around the Azov Sea and the Kerch Strait. The document was voted in by 103 members of the Assembly, three members voted against and 16 abstained. At the same time during the discussion PACE members decided not to mention the term \u201cprisoners of war\u201d in the document, contrary to what the Ukrainian side was insisting on. Instead a compromise was achieved and the wording that the Ukrainian side agreed to was found. The phrase added to the Resolution mentions that the Ukrainian sailors captured by Russia must be treated \u201cin accordance with relevant provisions of international humanitarian law such as the Geneva Conventions.\u201d The Geneva Conventions of 1949 define the status of the prisoners of war and the rules they should be treated in accordance with.<\/p>\n There were no representatives of Russia at the sitting, so their position was not voiced. To remind, the Russian delegation was stripped of the voting right at PACE following the annexation of Crimea. In 2016 Russia protesting against the restrictions refused to participate in the Assembly\u2019s work and later stopped paying membership fees to the Council of Europe.<\/p>\n Yanukovych found guilty of treason, sentenced in absentia to 13 years in prison<\/strong><\/p>\n Last week the court found former Ukraine\u2019s president Viktor Yanukovych guilty in absentia of treason and complicity in waging of the aggressive war. The court sentenced Yanukovych to 13 years in prison. At the same time the court rejected the article on \u201ccomplicity in purposeful actions aimed at changing the state borders\u201d that Yanukovych was also charged with. The court did not find him guilty in that seeing no convincing evidence that Yanukovych was informed of the Russians\u2019 ultimate goal \u2013 the annexation of Crimea. The court also ruled that the prosecution had not provided evidence that Yanukovych acted to change Ukraine\u2019s borders. The court did not find calls to such action in his speech.<\/p>\n https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/70062-warten-auf-gerechtigkeit-der-prozess-gegen-den-ex-prasidenten-janukowytsch<\/p>\n Distributed Denial of Secrets:\u00a0<\/strong>The Dark Side of the Kremlin<\/strong><\/p>\n On January 25 a group called Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets)released a large collection of documents of the Russian Federation obtained through hacking and information leaks, writes \u201cUkrainska Pravda\u201d quoting The New York Times. The majority of the materials that shed light on the Russian war in Ukraine as well as on the ties between the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church, were earlier published in Russia, Ukraine and other countries.<\/p>\n The group DDoSecrets said The Dark Side of the Kremlin files include \u201chundreds of thousands of messages and files from Russian politicians, journalists, oligarchs, religious figures, and nationalists\/terrorists in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n It is mentioned that the documents include a \u201cvoluminous archive of material hacked from Russia\u2019s Ministry of Internal Affairs that WikiLeaks had declined to publish in 2016.\u201d Released were also many Russian emails and other documents obtained by the hacker group \u201cShaltai Boltai\u201d, documents of the Russian weapons exporter Rosoboronexport and materials on falsifying the story of MH17 downing over Ukraine in 2014.<\/p>\n The new web site works similarly to the WikiLeaks model \u2013 welcoming hackers and informers to send confidential documents.<\/p>\n \u201cThose Against?\u201d: a new anti-Ukrainian show on Russian TV<\/strong><\/p>\n Russian state-owned federal channel \u201cRussia 1\u201d has launched a new political talk-show called \u201cThose against?\u201d (\u201cKto Protiv?\u201d). While the majority of such programs are broadcasted at evenings, this particular program targets the audience at afternoon, broadening the viewership\u2019s exposure to the messages government desires to promote.<\/p>\n Sergey Mikheev will host the show, further establishing his position as one of the most popular political scientists favored by Kremlin. As a frequent guest to a number of such programs he has gained a reputation for the vehement attacks on Ukraine and Ukrainian government as well as his openly negative views on EU and the USA. Such views, supported by often radical messages and frequent use of hate speech, resulted in the status of persona non grata in the European Union upheld since 2014.<\/p>\n While the program positions itself as an alternative to already existing ones, the very first issue demonstrates that it is, in fact, just another platform that grants Kremlin one more opportunity to promote the desired narratives.<\/p>\n A significant part of the program was dedicated to discussing Ukraine in a manner typical for Russian state controlled media, reinforcing ideas of Ukraine being a \u201cNazi\u201d failed state. Moreover, the first issue of \u201cThose against?\u201d was endorsed by Vladimir Solovyov, who is himself one of the most famous Russian TV hosts with a strictly pro-government, anti-Ukrainian, anti-Western rhetoric he notoriously applies in every issue of his own show \u201cEvening with Vladimir Solovyov\u201d.<\/p>\n Launch of \u201cThose against\u201d demonstrates a tendency for the radicalization of Russian media, which is to be expected before presidential elections in Ukraine. They will take place on March 31, 2019 and Moscow has already mobilized significant resources, including media, in an attempt to influence the political process in Ukraine.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Asambleya.png\")
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