Ukraine lost one more soldier| Ukrinform
KYIV, September 9 /Ukrinform/. One Ukrainian serviceman was killed, no soldiers were wounded in the ATO area over past 24 hours.
Spokesman for the Presidential Administration on the anti-terrorist operation, Colonel Andriy Lysenko said this at a briefing in Kyiv, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
"One Ukrainian serviceman was killed, no Ukrainian soldiers were wounded as a result of active hostilities over past 24 hours," Lysenko said.
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53,000 Russian servicemen on border with Ukraine- Security Council s Secretary| Ukrinform
KYIV, September 9 /Ukrinform/. Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) Oleksandr Turchynov states that Russia has positioned about 53,000 servicemen on the border with Ukraine.
The NSDC Secretary said this on the air of Ukraine's 24 news TV channel
"The concentration of Russian troops along our common border has not changed for past six months. It's about fifty battalion tactical groups, involving 53,000 people," he said.
According to him, Putin is now trying to negotiate with the West, preparing to possible talks with the United States at the UN General Assembly session in New York.
Turchynov added that the Russian provocations in Ukraine would continue and "we have to be ready to repel the attack at any moment."
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Tymchuk: Terrorists reinforced with new mortar battery : UNIAN news
The Russian-backed militants are carrying out a regrouping and are reinforced with a new mortar battery, head of the Information Resistance Group and MP Dmytro Tymchuk wrote on Facebook on Wednesday.
"A new 82mm mortar battery of the militants has been recorded to the north of the town of Dokuchaievsk," he said.
According to Tymchuk, the situation in the Donbas conflict zone remains stable, though single armed provocations from the Russian-terrorist troops are still recorded.
The Russia proxies are firing small arms in the direction of Artemivsk and in Luhansk area. In addition, the terrorists continue to fire armored vehicles and rocket launchers in the area of the city of Donetsk.
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Russian proxies attack ATO forces four times overnight : UNIAN news
The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine four times overnight, the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) wrote on Facebook on Wednesday.
"From 18:00 to midnight on September 9, the illegal armed groups fired several times on ATO forces in Donbas," the press center said.
In the direction of Artemivsk, at about 18:30 Kyiv time, the militants started firing small arms on a fortified position of the Ukrainian armed forces in the village of Luhanske.
At 20:25 Kyiv time,
the mercenaries started firing a grenade launcher on ATO forces near the town of Schastia.
"In addition, from 21:05 to 23:10, the Russian proxies were firing infantry fighting vehicles, grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and small arms on our units to the south of the town of Avdiyivka from the village of Spartak," the headquarters said.
"From midnight to 06:00 on September 9, the Kremlin-backed mercenaries were not using weapons along the demarcation line," the press center said.
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UN monitors report mass killings of civilians by militants in Donbas - read on - uatoday.tv
8,000 killed in Ukraine conflict, according to UN estimates
UNIAN: The monitoring mission of the UN Human Rights Council to Ukraine has recorded facts of mass killings of civilians, abductions, torture, sexual abuse, forced labor and extortion by Russian-backed militants in Donbas, according to Ukraine's Foreign Ministry.
"Ukraine has carefully studied the eleventh Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, which covers the period from May 16 to August 15, 2015. The information collected by the monitoring mission is another evidence of a highly negative impact of the Russian aggression against Ukraine on the human rights. In particular, it clearly states the impact on human rights across the region of external factors, such as Russian supply of military forces, weapons and ammunition to the Donbas," as stated in comments by MFA of Ukraine.
It is noted that the report is of great importance as it documents the crimes committed by Russian-backed illegal armed groups in the east of Ukraine. Among the facts reported by the mission are mass killings of civilians, abductions, torture, sexual abuse, forced labor and extortion.
It is separately stressed that, contrary to international law and the Constitution of Ukraine, the illegal armed groups continue to create administrative pseudo-agencies and issue quasi-passports to locals in certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
"Much attention is paid to the situation in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea occupied by the Russian Federation, where the rights of the Crimean Tatars and ethnic Ukrainians have been systematically violated. We believe that the severity of the problem and the scale of human rights violations by the Russian occupying authorities require a separate detailed OHCHR report," said the Foreign Ministry.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's adoption of the National Strategy in the field of human rights was positively assessed in the report. The Strategy was developed with participation of representatives of international organizations and civil society. A number of OHCHR recommendations aimed at improving respect for human rights in Ukraine will be carefully studied.
The Ukrainian side highly appreciates the activities of OHCHR and the Monitoring mission on human rights to Ukraine. Their work contributes to unbiased informing of the international community on the state of human rights in conditions caused by the Russian aggression against Ukraine. The results of the mission's work became an effective argument in favor of Ukraine initiating the extension of the mission's mandate until March 15, 2016.
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