Friday, 25 July 2014
MH17: Ukraine separatist commander 'admits' rebels had Buk missile system
Australia has federal police ready to enter Ukraine and secure MH17 site
Prime minister has sent 50 police officers to London and is prepared to send them to Ukraine
More journalists detained in Ukraine while reporting on MH17 tragedy
Further to my posting yesterday about the pressures placed on journalists in Ukraine, there have been more abductions. Both sides in the conflict were responsible for detaining reporters.
CNN reports that a Ukrainian journalist working as a fixer for the broadcaster, Anton Skiba, is being held by pro-Russian separatists.
Armed men from the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic seized Skiba outside a hotel in Donetsk on Tuesday (21 July). He had been working for one day with a CNN crew reporting on the MH17 crash site.
The broadcaster withheld the news for two days in the hope of securing Skiba's release without publicity. The separatists initially accused Skiba of posting cash rewards for the killing of separatist fighters on his Facebook page.
This accusation was subsequently dropped. Instead, Skiba was accused of using multiple forms of identification with different surnames and being a Ukrainian agent.
The US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, told CNN's Christiane Amanpour that Russia was to blame for such actions by using "fear as part of its strategy to sow chaos in Ukraine."
On the same day, a British freelance reporter working for Russia Today, Graham Phillips, was seized along with a cameraman for the Abkhazian news agency (ANNA), Vadim Aksyonov.
Two other unidentified people were reported to have been detained with them - an employee of the press service of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and a possible acquaintance of Phillips.
Their captors are thought to have been members of the Ukrainian army. Aksyonov, who was released after two days, was reportedly tortured.
Sources: CNN/International Business Times/CBC/OSCE/Russia Today
Britain's FOREIGN MINISTRY is in contact with Ukraine on the disappearance of Stringer RT
The wounded Ukrainian military was taken to the airport for transfer to Ukraine
WASHINGTON, 25 Jul-RIA Novosti. United States House of representatives adopted on Friday a resolution that prohibits President Barack Obama to send troops to Iraq for a "protracted war" without congressional authorization.
Obama previously has sent several hundred military advisers in Iraq, where extremists from the group the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" captured significant territory and a number of major cities. The United States says that is not going to send troops to the Iraqi Government for help.
Resolution of the House of representatives adopted by 370 votes to 40, could have only symbolic meaning, as the President of the United States in the past kept the right to unilateral decisions about the "limited" military operations abroad. While Obama has repeatedly changed his opinion on the matter. So, in preparation for the strike on Syria in the fall of 2013, the President of the United States at first intended to take the decision alone, then applied for permission in Congress, and then abandoned the operation without waiting for a possible rejection of the Congress.
Between the Administration and the House of representatives to continue the confrontation on a range of legal issues relating to the powers of the President. So, the Republicans who control the House of representatives, as early as next week to hold a vote on the President of United States on trial for abuse of power. This step, as the resolution on sending troops to Iraq, would have no practical value because it will block the Senate President Obama's Party in control of the Democratic Party.
Poroshenko: Ukraine is ready to fulfill all of the obligations under the IMF programme
23: 1125.07.2014165 United States President Barack Obama has sent several hundred military advisers in Iraq, where extremists from the group the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" captured significant territory and a number of major cities.
WASHINGTON, 25 Jul-RIA Novosti. United States House of representatives adopted on Friday a resolution that prohibits President Barack Obama to send troops to Iraq for a "protracted war" without congressional authorization.
Obama previously has sent several hundred military advisers in Iraq, where extremists from the group the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" captured significant territory and a number of major cities. The United States says that is not going to send troops to the Iraqi Government for help.
Resolution of the House of representatives adopted by 370 votes to 40, could have only symbolic meaning, as the President of the United States in the past kept the right to unilateral decisions about the "limited" military operations abroad. While Obama has repeatedly changed his opinion on the matter. So, in preparation for the strike on Syria in the fall of 2013, the President of the United States at first intended to take the decision alone, then applied for permission in Congress, and then abandoned the operation without waiting for a possible rejection of the Congress.
Between the Administration and the House of representatives to continue the confrontation on a range of legal issues relating to the powers of the President. So, the Republicans who control the House of representatives, as early as next week to hold a vote on the President of United States on trial for abuse of power. This step, as the resolution on sending troops to Iraq, would have no practical value because it will block the Senate President Obama's Party in control of the Democratic Party.
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The United States Embassy in Madrid rally against war in Ukraine
01: 0626.07.2014 (updated: 01:08 26.07.2014) 21070Ispanskie anti-fascists support resistance in Donbass and in solidarity with him held a rally in front of the Embassy of United States in Madrid. The protesters demanded Washington to stop assistance to the Ukrainian authorities.
Moscow, 26 Jul, RIA Novosti news agency. Spanish anti-fascists held a rally Friday at the United States Embassy in Madrid demanding Washington stop supporting the Ukrainian authorities have deployed a military operation in the East of Ukraine.
"We support the anti-fascist resistance in Donbass!", is one of the slogans with which members of the Committee in support of Madrid anti-fascist Ukraine "went to the Embassy. They supported a number of other organizations, including the anti-fascist coordination center of Spain. The vast majority of participants are Spaniards, though there are also people from Ukraine living in Spain. Just in front of the American Embassy came out to about 100 people.
"We believe that the United States is directly involved in all the recent events in Ukraine since Independence. They are involved in the military coup in Kiev, the massacres which are taking place in Ukraine, especially in the Donbass region. We demand from the United States to do everything to stop these killings, to peace in the region. We condemn the imperialist United States and European Union position and opposed Nazi of Ukraine ",-said in a telephone News Conference on Saturday, one of the leaders of the movement Agustin Rios.
It is not the first such action by the Committee. After the tragedy in Odessa, where a fire in the House of trade unions lost their lives, according to official figures, 48 people, hundreds of Spaniards came to the Embassy of Ukraine to express condolences and to investigate the causes of the incident.
On their pages on social networks, the Committee organized a fundraising and humanitarian assistance for residents of Donbass.
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