Court in the Hague investigates claim of Kiev participation in murders on Maidan

From DONi News

The International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague started an investigation of the Ukrainian Institute of legal policy and social protection’s complaint concerning the participation of the current authorities’ representatives in murders on Maidan – the Head of the Institute, the ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Irina Berezhnaya.

The International Criminal Court in the Hague started an investigation of our complaint concerning the participation of members of the current Ukrainian authorities in massacre on Maidan.

She explained that the court would consider some episodes, in particular, the cases on the first dead on “Maidan” and an attempt of the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Sergey Pashinsky to bring away a sniper rifle without being seen, and also the shooting of participants of “Maidan” and law enforcement authorities by the unknown snipers on February 20, 2014.

Berezhnaya has also published the letter from the International Criminal Court in a social network with a promise to consider the complaint quickly.

DONi News Agency

https://dninews.com/article/court-hague-considers-claim-kiev-participation-murders-maidan

Donetsk SitRep: DPR under heavy artillery fire – 24.2

DONi Press

February 24, 2016

‘The situation on the contact line remains tense’, said Vice-Commander of Donetsk Army Eduard Basurin on Wednesday. ‘In the shellings the enemy used heavy 122mm and 152mm artillery’, Basurin said.

The Ukrainian military violated the ceasefire thirty-three times and shelled the territory of the Republic a hundred and forty-eight times. In the shellings the enemy used 122mm and 152mm artillery three times, 120mm mortars twenty times, 82mm mortars a hundred and four times, as well as infantry fighting vehicles, grenade launchers and small arms.

The Ukrainian punitors fired from the localities of Pesky, Nevelskoye, Zhovanka and Opytnoye at the localities of Zaytsevo, Zhabichevo, Staromikhaylovka, the area of the airport, the Volvo Centre, the Kuybyshevsky and Petrovsky districts of the city of Donetsk. The shellings were carried out from the positions of the 14th and 93rd separate mechanised brigades under command of Zhakun and Klochkov.

The intelligence of the DPR Armed Forces keeps registering the concentration of the enemy’s weapons and military equipment near the contact line:

– In Krasnogorovka (3 km away from the contact line) there was registered the arrival of four 120mm motorised artillery systems “Nona-C”;
– In Dzerzhinsk (2 km away from the contact line) the was registered the transportation of four tanks;
– In Vesyolaya Dolina (12 km away from the contact line) there was registered the arrival of eleven infantry fighting vehicles.

Besides, according to the OSCE mission’s report, in the sites of the Ukrainian weapons and equipment storage the observers documented the absence of ten tanks.

The Ukrainian military and political authorities continue to carry out activities on the preparation for the offensive, which is indicated by the facts of transporting artillery and equipment to the contact line. Zhakun and Klochkov continue to compete on who will become a bloody hero of Ukraine, shelling civilians and residential areas. We can state as a fact that in the Kuibyshev district of Donetsk two civilians were wounded in the shellings. That’s how the “defenders of the Motherland” betray their moral foundations, maiming civilians.

Vice-Commander Eduard Basurin, official translation by DONi News Agency

DONi News Bulletin

https://dnipress.com/en/posts/donetsk-sitrep-dpr-under-heavy-artillery-fire-24.2/

American snipers are officially at war in the Donbass

DONi Press

24 Feb, 2016

US citizens are officially to take part in the fighting in Donbass as members of Ukrainian units. According to The Politnavigator, it was announced by Maumuka Mamulashvili presented as the commander of the “Georgian National Legion” at a press conference in Kiev.

‘According to my information, this is the first precedent when a US citizen is involved in the fighting and will represent one of the Ukrainian battalions in the Georgian Legion. We expect more volunteers from the US to join us. The first group will consist of 10 people. They will take a direct part in the fighting in the east of Ukraine. Previously, they were instructors but now they will take part in the hostilities themselves,’ he said.

At the press conference there was present another US citizen – Brian Christopher Boyandzher, a sniper from the “Georgian National Legion”. Talking about his motivation to come to fight in Donbass, he said, ‘Ukraine is a US partner that participated in peacekeeping operations in Afghanistan’. Boyandzher did not precise where exactly he had served earlier, saying only that he was a sniper.

Last year he was in Ukraine for five months, teaching the Ukrainian military to be snipers. The American sharpshooter said he was not afraid of persecution in the United States for his participation in the fighting on the territory of another country because, according to him, in his home country it is not prohibited by law. Mamulashvili explained that the “Georgian National Legion” is an informal name of the unit which is a part of the battalion “Kievan Rus”. He said that in his unit there is a French citizen who, however, asked not to be named, as well as representatives of some other European countries.

DONi News Agency

https://dnipress.com/en/posts/american-snipers-are-officially-at-war-in-the-donbass/

Veuves de guerre du Donbass, aux portes du malheur

DONi Press

24 Feb, 2016

Nous sommes dans un petit village du Donbass, entre Gorlovka et Jdanovka, l’endroit est sinistre, les routes sont défoncées, une lada s’approche traînant une remorque dont les deux roues sont crevées et font un bruit mou et étrange car il n’y a aucun chemin bitumé dans le village. Le temps qui se réchauffe a transformé le lieu en un cloaque, de petites maisons pauvres et biscornues sont alignées, c’est là pourtant aussi le Donbass, entre la riche capitale de Donetsk, avec ses monuments, ses théâtres et ses universités et puis ici ce village qui est comme agrippé sur un flanc de colline. Seul le soleil d’une fin de journée froide vient atténuer cette impression.

Natalia ouvre la porte de son logis, il est très modeste. Elle peut avoir 35 ans, une femme simple. Elle était serveuse dans le café de son mari dans la ville voisine de Jdanovka. Un établissement construit après un dur labeur, une vie tranquille, un petit garçon de sept ans, c’était il y a deux ans bientôt. Et puis le Maïdan est arrivé, Natalia raconte : « je n’y prêtais pas attention, nous étions au travail, mais j’étais inquiète et mon mari qui avait 40 ans était de plus en plus en colère sur ce qui se passait en Ukraine. Il a été l’un des premiers à participer en dehors de son travail aux meetings contre le Maïdan, c’était en février 2014 et puis étape après étape il a été de plus en plus actif. J’avais peur et je lui disais que je pensais que c’était dangereux, qu’il était papa, mais il pensait que la chose la plus importante était de défendre notre terre, nos libertés. Je ne peux pas dire qu’il n’avait pas raison, mais j’avais peur pour nous et pour lui et je sentais que quelque chose de terrible allait se passer».

Elle continue son histoire, je sens son émotion et aussi ses difficultés à s’exprimer, elle n’ose pas me regarder et fixe Evguéni, membre du syndicat qui s’occupe des soldats blessés, des veuves de guerre, des familles des soldats. Son mari s’engage parmi les premiers dans les rangs des insurgés, ils n’ont au départ aucune arme. Evguéni raconte : « nous n’avions aucune arme, mais en face de nous, nous savions qu’il y avait des conscrits de l’Armée ukrainienne, des tout jeunes pas motivés et qui ne savaient pas du tout ce qu’ils faisaient ici, alors il n’a pas été difficile d’en désarmer un grand nombre, de s’emparer de leurs armes, de rassembler tout ce que nous pouvions trouver dans notre entourage et c’est ainsi que nous avons commencé à nous défendre, nous n’avions rien mais nous avions la foi en notre juste cause et nous n’avions pas peur, nous aurions peut-être dû mais quand vous savez que ce que vous faites est juste vous ne pensez pas au danger ».

Le mari de Natalia avec les insurgés de la région participe à la bataille de Jdanovka, les forces ukrainiennes s’enfoncent alors partout dans le Donbass, les bataillons spéciaux de néonazis ne tardent pas à les renforcer et les combats deviennent de jour en jour plus durs. La ville est prise par les Ukrainiens, lui et ses camarades creusent alors des tranchées et construisent des positions de fortunes aux alentours, ils reprendront bientôt la ville. Il est tué un jour du mois de juillet, emporté par un obus d’artillerie, laissant donc une veuve et un orphelin. Evguéni poursuit : « tant de mes camarades sont morts, et maintenant je me dois d’aider leurs familles, j’ai dû aller leur annoncer la mort de leur fils ou de leur mari ou père, j’ai vu les pleurs et je vis désormais avec cette question : pourquoi pas moi aussi ? J’espère que je ne survivrai pas moi-même à cette guerre, car toute ma vie je vais devoir faire face à ces femmes et ces familles et dans les regards je sentirai toujours cette question, pourquoi je n’y suis pas resté avec eux ? ». Cette déclaration est terrible, je ne sais que répondre à cet homme courageux, un ancien entrepreneur en bâtiment, je lis dans son regard bleu la douleur et aussi les convictions, car il reste bien entendu convaincu qu’ils devaient défendre leur liberté.

Natalia ne s’éloigne pas sans que je lui confie un peu d’argent, il s’agit de 10 000 roubles, de l’argent que les Français de mon réseau m’ont confié avant de partir et que mois après mois je distribue là où je sens qu’il est nécessaire. Natalia ne perçoit aucune aide, son mari a été tué alors qu’il n’y avait aucune structure militaire, il n’est pas jusqu’à présent considéré comme « mort au champ d’honneur », une des très nombreuses victimes anonymes de la guerre, un oublié. Les démarches sont en cours, mais l’affaire est longue, il faut des témoins, des certificats, des documents et la plupart sont morts dans son unité de volontaires. Elle ne rentre dans aucune catégorie, reçoit toutefois de l’aide précieuse de la Fédération de Russie, un tout petit peu d’autres fonds mais ce sont les voisins et des gens comme Evguéni qui l’aident le plus. Sans revenu, avec un enfant, sans travail, elle survit dans cet endroit oublié de Dieu. Evguéni m’indique alors qu’il y en a d’autres dans le Donbass… je frémis à cette idée, combien sont-elles ?

Lorsque j’annonce la somme, Natalia s’effondre, elle pleure, Evguéni me racontera qu’il ne l’aura vu pleurer que deux fois, le jour où il fut obligé de lui annoncer la mort de son mari, et en ce jour. Ce n’est pas tant l’argent, mais surtout la situation désespérée où elle se débat avec son enfant, il est d’ailleurs malade et elle refusera de nous laisser l’approcher, du moins pour le moment, je comprends d’ailleurs très bien sa gêne. Nous quittons l’endroit, je n’ai pas de mots rassurants à lui dire, alors quand je lui tends les bras, nous nous serrons, je n’ai aucune autre réaction, nous n’aurons que quelques mots pour se dire au revoir, comment pourrais-je atténuer sa douleur, comment pourrais-je lui souhaiter du bonheur. Sur le chemin du retour nous nous arrêtons. C’est la tombe d’un autre volontaire, non loin du village de Rozovka. Encore un insurgé tué, ses camarades de combat lui ont offert un monument, non loin des tranchées où il a péri. Dans le village, il y a une autre tombe. Le soldat repose en plein milieu du village, sur la place centrale, une couronne fraîche orne sa tombe, il n’y a qu’une croix, même pas une stèle ou une butte de terre. C’est aussi cela l’agression ukrainienne, des hommes venus apporter le malheur et la mort à des gens qui voulaient et qui veulent être libres.

Laurent Brayard pour DONi.Press

https://dnipress.com/en/posts/veuves-de-guerre-du-donbass-aux-portes-du-malheur/

Donbass: war widows at the gates of sorrow, sorrow caused by American officials and tax dollars

From Fort Russ

 

Laurent BRAYARD, in DONiPRESS, February 24, 2016

Translated from French by Tom Winter

Donbass war widows, one of them Natalia, agreed to meet the team SaveDonbassPeople and received from Laurent Brayard’s Donors Group a sum of 10 000 rubles to mitigate somewhat the suffering of her hellish situation. They came from Ukraine to kill them, they defended themselves to be free, they died in battle for a just cause, they leave widows and orphans — Brown Ukraine that kills, has killed, and whose hands are dripping with blood. Thank you to those French people who helped assist this young woman who is left without work and without resources with a 9 year old child.
We are in a small village of Donbass, between Gorlovka and Jdanovka. The place is grim, the roads are potholed, a Lada comes up dragging a trailer with two punctured wheels. They make a soft, strange noise because there isn’t an asphalt road in the village. The temperature is warming up and has transformed the place into a cesspool. The small houses, poor and quirky, are in a line. For all that, this is also the Donbass of the rich capital of Donetsk, with its monuments, theaters and universities — and then here this village clinging to a hillside. Only the sun of a late cold day mitigates this impression.
Natalia opens the door of her house. It is very modest. She might be 35, a simple woman. She was a waitress in her husband’s cafe in the nearby town of Jdanovka. A shop built after some hard work, a quiet life, a little boy of seven, but that was two years ago. And then the Maidan happened. Natalia said:
“I did not pay attention, we were at work, but I was nervous and my husband, who was 40 years old, was increasingly angry about what was happening in Ukraine. On top of his work, he was one of the first to participate in rallies against the Maidan. That was in February 2014 and then step by step he became increasingly active. I was scared and I told him I thought it was dangerous, he was a daddy, but he thought the most important thing was to defend our land, our freedoms. I can not say that he wasn’t right, but I was afraid for us and for him and I felt that something terrible was going to happen. “
She continues her story, I feel her emotion and also her difficulty in talking, she does not dare look at me and looks toward Yevgeny, member of the syndicate that takes care of wounded soldiers, war widows, and families of soldiers. Her husband signed up among the first in the ranks of the insurgents. Initially they had no weapons. Yevgeny says,
“We had no weapons, but in front of us, we knew that there were conscripts of the Ukrainian Army, all young, unmotivated and with no idea at all what they were doing here. Then it was not difficult to disarm many, to seize their weapons, gather everything we could find around us and this is how we started to defend ourselves. We had nothing but we had faith in our just cause and we were not afraid, we might have been, but when you know that what you are doing is just, you do not think about the danger. “
Natalia’s husband participated in the battle of Jdanovka with the local insurgents. Ukrainian forces then were settling in everywhere in the Donbass, and special battalions of neo-Nazis had no hesitation about coming in as reinforcements and the fighting became tougher day by day. The village was taken by the Ukrainians, he and his comrades then dug trenches and built up positions, they will soon retake the town.
He was killed one day in July, carried away by an artillery shell, thus leaving a widow and an orphan. Yevgeny continues, “so many of my comrades are dead, and now I have to help their families, I’ve had to tell them about the death of their son or husband or father, I saw the tears and I see now with this question: why not me too? I hope I myself will not survive this war, because all my life I will have to deal with these women and families and I always feel in their glances this question, why did I not stay with them?”
This statement is terrible, I do not know how to respond to this brave man, a former building contractor, I read in his blue eyes the pain and the convictions, for he is of course convinced that they had to defend their liberty.
We don’t part without leaving Natalia a bit of cash. It comes to 10 thousand rubles, money that the French people in my network entrusted to me before I left, telling me month after month that I deliver it where I feel it is needful. Natalia has not been receiving any aid, as her husband was killed when there was no military structure, and is not until now considered “killed on the field of honor,” one of the many unnamed victims war, a forgotten. The process is underway, but the case is long, you need witnesses, certificates, documents, and most in his volunteer unit have died.
She does not fit into any category, however, she receives precious help from the Russian Federation, a very small bit from other funds, but it is the neighbors and people like Yevgeny who help the most. Without income, with a child, without work, she survives in this place forgotten by God. Yevgeny then tells me that there are others in the Donbass … I shudder at the thought, how many are there?
When I announced the sum, Natalia collapses in tears. Yevgeny tells me that he has seen her cry twice, the day he was forced to announce the death of her husband, and today. It was not so much the money, but above all the desperate situation in which she struggles with her child, who is also ill and she refuses to let us approach him, at least for now.
I understand full well her embarrassment. As we take our leave, I have no reassuring words to say to her, so when I hold out my arms, we hug, I have no other reaction, we have but a few words for saying goodbye. How could I alleviate her pain, how could I wish her happiness. On the way back we stop. This is the grave of another volunteer, near the village of Rozovka. Another insurgent killed; his comrades made him a memorial, near the trenches where he perished.
 In the village, there is another grave. The soldier rests in the middle of the village, in the central square, a fresh wreath adorns his grave, there is only a cross, not even a stone or a mound of earth. This is then, the Ukrainian assault, the men who came to bring misfortune and death to people who wanted and want to be free.

Руками путчистов США готовят на Украине условия для эпидемий

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Руками путчистов США готовят на Украине условия для эпидемий

Правительство путчистской Украины упразднило санитарные нормы времен СССР, которые были приняты до 1991 года, признав их утратившими силу и такими, что не применяются на территории Украины.

Как пояснил и. о. главы Государственной санитарно-эпидемиологической службы Украины Святослав Протас, согласно тексту документа, признаны утратившими силу санитарные, санитарно-гигиенические, санитарно-противоэпидемические, санитарно-эпидемиологические, противоэпидемические, гигиенические правила и нормы, государственные санитарно-эпидемиологические нормативы и санитарные регламенты.

Распоряжение вступает в силу с 1 января 2017 года.

Напомним, США разместили на территории Украины две свои военные лаборатории, в которых ведутся секретные исследования в области бактериологического оружия.

Architects of U.S coup in Ukraine prepare conditions for epidemics

From Fort Russ

Translated by Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ
24th February, 2016
 
The government of Ukraine has abolished the sanitary standards of Soviet times that had been in effect since 1991, declaring them null and void, and not applicable to the territory of Ukraine.
As was explained by the acting head of the State sanitary-epidemiological service of Ukraine Svyatoslav Protas, the document abrogates the effect of sanitary, sanitary-hygienic, sanitary-anti-epidemic, sanitary-hygienic, anti-epidemic, hygiene rules and regulations, the state sanitary-epidemiologic regulations and sanitary standards.
The decree comes into force from 1st January 2017.
Recall that the United States had placed two military laboratories in the territory of Ukraine, which conducted secret research in the field of bacteriological weapons.

To understand why Russians love Putin, you should look back to his first term — a businessman’s tale

From Fort Russ

Feb 24th
PREFACE by Tatzhit
I translated three short stories that capture very well what Russians think about Putin. To put them in context, I have included my thoughts on the subject in the small “postscriptum” section below. Read my ramblings, or draw your own conclusions.

The first story is written from a first-person perspective, and describes how Russia was before Putin, what he changed, and what people learned from it. Essentially, it explains why even profit-minded businessmen, suffering from economic problems and unimpressed with Russia’s foreign policy, continue to support the current government because of the hard lessons of the 90s.

The other two pieces are from a satirical author, one written about the time when Putin took power, and the other about him later, as the “Tsar”. These two are quite over the top, but I think there is a big grain of truth in them as well – if not about the real Putin, then about the popular view of him.

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#1: A Businessman’s Story
I remember Perestroika well. Marlboro cigs for 1.50 appeared at our supermarket, and we smoked them enthusiastically, sitting in the gazebo at the neighboring playground. The taste of them was magical – far, far better than the Soviet “Kosmos” for 0.70. The future as adults was no longer certain, but also seemed magical through the smoke, like in an American movie. It took me many years to realize why we thought that…

And then everybody was suddenly into politics. Intellectuals all started hating on long-dead Stalin, the Communists refused to compromise, popular newspapers constantly published this or that “historic discovery”. When I returned from the army and saw people standing in lines for some crap cigs from Bulgaria, which were rationed to boot, I first found myself feeling [as a character in a bad comedy, and not Hollywood movie]. But even then, I still did not understand.

That happened later – I stepped into adult life, and understood how politics works.

At one point, watching dumb mugs on TV struggle under the weight of arrogance and inability to form coherent sentences became unbearable. How can those “democrats” run the country, if they can’t even organize their own thoughts? By the time Yeltsin’s tanks shelled their Parliament, I already wasn’t interested – politics turned into a murky sideshow which only occasionally had some effect in real life.

Meanwhile, real life went into full “rat race” mode, chasing money above all, with brief breaks to celebrate small “victories”, ridiculous by today’s standards.

Strolling across flea markets, filled with brand-name clothes all of a sudden. Flashing across night-time roads on my first “beamer”. Endless ruins moving past the train windows, [the country’s factories and infrastructure – sold to murky investors for pennies on the dollar, and immediately scrapped for a quick buck] stretching all the way from Moscow to St. Pete.

It would be wrong to say that we weren’t [celebrating freedom]. After all, freedom is when rules and restrictions disappear, right? There was even a children’s book like this – “A holiday of Disobedience”, [about children who were left to do as they please by their parents, and how short-lived their euphoria was]. That’s exactly what happened – after the official dismantling of the state, it slowly disappeared from people’s heads. Nobody was left to establish order, and the rules were set by those who have managed to steal something big, or bribe their way into government positions.
The whole country played Cowboys and Indians. There was no law enforcement – except those men in blue uniforms who existed solely to collect bribes on highways, and pass almost all of their loot higher up the ladder. Everyone lied and stole. Some guys were dodging the draft, some were stealing from their jobs, nobody I knew paid any taxes.

Yes, a lot of it started back when USSR went off track. But in Soviet times, people still obeyed most laws. They went to official jobs, had apartments they legally owned, etc. Yes, even back then some people bought stuff on the black market and could pay a bribe for a driver’s license exam, but those who did that were a tiny minority. Slightly more people nicked stuff from work, but in general they took something insignificant. Most people could honestly think of themselves as good, upstanding citizens. Plus the “real men” of the WWII generation were still around.

And then, in a few years, the whole country and all its inhabitants became lawless and illegitimate. Getting a fake stamp in your Social Security or visa paperwork became a common thing. You could pay off anyone – the judge, the fire department, the EPA. Businesses completely ignored the government and produced fake financial statements with unbelievable numbers, which worked because the tax collectors knew everything, and were overlooking it for a small sum. “Business raiders” – those who made money by illegally taking over and looting businesses – were heroes on TV. Kids in kindergartens didn’t play Cops vs Robbers – just Robbers vs Robbers [1].

And I was an integral part of this lawlessness. I fudged our accounting books and didn’t think anything of it. I paid wages under the table and casually handed out bribes when I needed to register our semi trucks or buy off a tax inspector. I was kicking out contractors that used my shops to sell their own goods. I smuggled in everything, without a second thought – importing legally did not make sense, we would not be able to compete. I even drove around a car that was imported illegally, and simply bought it back for $100 each time it was impounded. I laundered money via fictional companies, and created legal entities using the identities of hobos from the street. Put forged stamps on forged invoices. I moved cash by the trash bag, and even bought an illegal handgun just in case. I was friends with the mafia guys who were protecting my business, and tagged along when they had “matters to discuss” with rivals.

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Kiev in trouble– sniper groups seen in the capital

From Fort Russ

Translated by Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ
21st February, 2016
 
In Ukraine, people are actively discussing the information on the unknown sniper groups who arrived in the center of Kiev.
On the Ukrainian social networks there were photos of unknown snipers taken by witnesses in the center of Kiev.
The photos were published on Sunday morning outside the walls of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. There were men dressed in strange uniforms.
The people of Kiev, with a disturbing sense of humor, asked each other, not “musicians” again? Since the riots on the Maidan, they are sometimes called snipers because of the similarity between the cases of the rifles and the protective cases of musical instruments.
“These musicians like to play at the funeral of a new ‘heavenly thousand'”, — said opponents of the Maidan.
As a reminder, “a Third Maidan”, organized by the so-called Revolutionary right-wing forces (RPS), is ongoing in the centre of the Ukrainian capital.

Kherson “Self-Defense” openly calls for introduction of Nazism in Ukraine

From Fort Russ

Translated by Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ
23rd February, 2016
 
The terrorist organization “self-defense”, established by the government junta, operates in every city of Ukraine; they are also in Kherson.
The ideological leader and the “voice” of the Kherson branch is a certain Inna Usachova.
A very scandalous person, who at each mass event held in the Kherson region makes hysterical claims, this time completely screwed up.
Material that openly called for the introduction in Ukraine of Nazism was posted on the official page of the organization on Facebook.
Some Kherson websites even dared to talk about this outrageous fact.
Then “self-defense” deleted the post from their account, but screenshots of the material were taken, confirming the existence of fascism.
Alexander Podolsky
We were late for 20 years with our nationalism.
Now we will be saved only by Nazism.
Nationalism – Jews in embroidered shirts, and the Ukrainians in coffins.
Nazism – Ukrainians in black shirts, and Jews in coffins.
Choose…
It’s too late, dear, “to love” only what is yours.
It’s time to begin also “to hate” what is others.
These others who destroy us day in and day out.” – it said on the official community page on Facebook.
Among other things, the same Inna Usachova is famous for the fact that she wrote the statement for the SBU about whom they consider “enemies of Ukraine”. In 1937, people like Usachova exterminated the blossom of the Ukrainian nation. And in the wagons for the Gulags were the “clients” of the same type as Usachova – “conscious” bastards who were ready to put in jail all those who don’t appease them.