Situationen i Ukraina just nu, del 4

Moscow promised on Saturday to resume shipping coal and provide electricity to Ukraine for the first time in three years despite Kiev’s failure to guarantee energy supplies to Russian-occupied Crimea.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unexpected decision was announced just a day after Ukraine upped pressure on the breakaway Black Sea peninsula by severing all of its train and bus ties with the mainland.

The Kremlin did not link Putin’s “discounted” energy offer to Kiev’s increasingly punitive approach to the renegade region of 2.3 million.

But Russia’s public support in Crimea — essential in the face of global condemnation of its March annexation — depends heavily on Putin’s ability to improve living conditions in the long-neglected summer resort.

A top Kiev media outlet reported that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko had used the Crimea travel ban as a bargaining chip in his energy negotiations with the Kremlin. Both Moscow and Kiev refused to disclose the terms of the coal and electricity deal.

Considering the critical situation with (Ukranian) energy supplies, Putin decided to start these shipments despite the lack of prepayments,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the TASS new agency. “This demonstrates President Putin’s political will to provide real support to Ukrainians, especially on the eve of New Year.”

Ukraine’s eight-month separatist uprising in the Russian-speaking industrial east has shuttered many of the region’s huge coal mines and left the former Soviet republic’s antiquated boilers desperately short of fuel. The energy crunch has been compounded by the temporary shutdown one month ago of southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant — Europe’s largest and the fifth-most powerful in the world.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak said Moscow would start by sending 500,000 tons of coal a month “to help (Ukraine) solve the problem of reliable energy supplies for Crimea.”
Kozak said those volumes could double if a corresponding agreement was signed. But he also admitted that Kiev had failed to guarantee that any of these supplies would reach the Russian-controlled peninsula — suffering from periodic power cuts for most of the past week.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2014/12/28/world/ukraine-secures-cheap-russian-coal-power-supplies/#.VKBxTV4AKA

.../that authorities still account for some of the attacks against journalists. But this year, she says, she has noticed a startling shift: Most threats and attacks, including those online, have been carried out by civilians.

Romanyuk said she noticed a spike in such trolling of journalists following the creation in February 2015 of a Ukrainian “Internet army” headed by Information Policy Minister Yuriy Stets, a close ally of President Petro Poroshenko who once worked at Channel 5, a TV news company controlled by Poroshenko.

“Each of your information messages is a bullet in your enemy’s conscience,” read the website of the ministry’s ‘i-army,’ which said its goal was countering Russia’s formidable propaganda machine.

It invited “patriotic” Ukrainian Internet users to submit their names and e-mail addresses to join other “information warriors.” Weekly e-mails were then sent to the “i-army” with information about stories and reporters it disagreed with and what must be done to counter them. For instance, if a reporter used the term “rebel” to describe Russia-backed separatists or “civil war” to describe the conflict, members were urged to hound the publication and the reporter on their social-media accounts. For the “i-army,” the preferred terms are “terrorists” and “Russia’s war.”
http://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-attacks-on-journalists-media-landscape-press-freedom/27923284.html

The fourth point in Minsk-2 stipulates: “On the first day following the withdrawal a dialogue (between Kiev and Donbass representatives) is to begin 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.” Kiev did not fulfill this pivotal step –the first in the agreement with a specific deadline. A full year after the agreement and nearly a full year since the ceasefire and subsequent troop pullback, Kiev has refused to engage a dialogue with the Donbass rebel regions’ representatives

Thus, Kiev was the first to violate and has been in violation of Minsk-2 since the second day after the implementation of the mutual troop withdrawals last year.

Thus, from 17 March 2015 Kiev has been in violation of no less than seven articles and nine obligations it signed on to under the Minsk-2 accord.
http://gordonhahn.com/2016/02/19/whos-more-in-violation-of-minsk-2-kiev-or-donbass/

Terroristerna i hittepårepublikerna har ju förstört viktig infrastruktur för att straffa befolkningen och bevisen på brott som Haagdomstolen är satt att hantera blir allt fler.

När har Ukraina skickat det ärende som du hävdar (utom om Maidan och Krim)?
När har Ukraina accepterad Haag domstolen jurisdiktion i detta ärende?
När och om Haag domstolen beslutat att ta sig an ärendet?

I am concerned that forces on the Government side are using weapons in the course of hostilities that are either inherently insufficiently precise to justify within the context of a highly urban and civilian-populated conflict zone, or that weapons with a known level of precision are being used outside or without regard to proper Standard Operating Procedures to guide targeting.

Moreover I have not been convinced during my engagement with the relevant authorities that there is a proper investigation conducted when allegations of civilian casualties are brought to their attention. The answer that I got from some of the military authorities to the question when an investigation into allegations of excessive civilian casualties would be triggered, was that such a situation will never arise, because there was an order by the Minister of Defence that this should not happen. Such a denial that a problem could exist makes a solution very difficult to achieve.

I am concerned by reports of bodies discovered near Makiivka, in the Donetsk Region in September last year. While several of these bodies appear to be members of the armed groups who died in combat, some are reported to bear signs of having been executed after being detained by Government forces.
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=16460&LangID=E