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Ukraine Rebels Withdraw From Front-Line Villages Near Mariupol
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Pro-Russian rebels have withdrawn from front-line villages near the strategic port city of Mariupol.

Ukrainian military spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said on July 3 that the separatists “withdrew to the east, leaving the settlement of Shyrokyne completely destroyed."

The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine said it observed that all positions and bunkers previously occupied by the rebels in the village were “vacant.”

Meanwhile, separatist leader Denis Pushilin was quoted as saying the rebels are “waiting for a similar step [from Kyiv].”

Bien sûr, cela n’empêche pas l’annonce de l’imminente offensive russe…

Vladmir Putin ’planning fresh assault’ on Ukraine as drone reveals build up of Russian tanks | Daily Mail Online
▻http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3148791/Fears-Putin-planning-fresh-assault-Ukraine-drone-footage-reveals-build-

Fears that Putin is planning fresh assault on Ukraine as drone footage reveals build up of Russian tanks just 10 miles from the frontline
• Drone footage appears to show a Russian military camp in eastern Ukraine
• The video was released by a group supporting the Ukrainian government [Dnipro-1 battalion]
• Was first shot on May 20 and then on June 4 showing how camp had grown

Ukrainian Defense Ministry says OSCE exaggerates fighting figures
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/ukrainian-defense-ministry-says-osce-inflating-fighting-figures-387535.htm

Ukraine’s Defense Ministry accused international monitors of grossly inflating figures for the number of times the military on April 26 fired on combined Russian-separatist forces near the village of Shyrokyne in Donetsk Oblast.

By doing so, monitors from the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe had spread “unreliable and incomplete information” on the war in eastern Ukraine, where a cease-fire has never taken hold and is violated by both sides on an almost daily basis, according to an online statement posted on April 29.

The ministry had taken issue with a report released on April 27 in which the OSCE stated that Ukrainian forces had fired on combined Russian-separatist forces a total of 413 times a day earlier – a claim which the ministry denies.

Irina Gudyma, senior press assistant to the mission, told the Kyiv Post the group “would stick by what we have in the report.”
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The international group has also faced a flurry of accusations that Russian members feed information to the insurgents, and both Ukrainian soldiers and insurgents alike have expressed distrust of the group, saying their positions always end up coming under attack after visits by the monitors.

The accusations have repeatedly been denied by the group, with Bociurkiw reassuring that all members are vetted before joining the special monitoring mission.

During recent patrols of Shyrokyne, the deputy head of the special monitoring mission, Alexander Hug, told the Kyiv Post that both sides in the conflict were guilty of breaking the ceasefire, and that the organization had hard evidence of this.

At a briefing in Kyiv on April 30, Hug reiterated that, saying “both sides have used weapons that were meant to be removed in accordance with the Minsk agreements.”

Du point de vue ukrainien, il est clair que les déclarations d’Alexander Hug ne peuvent résulter que de provocations russes…

Azov Battalion spearheads Ukrainian counter-offensive
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Ukraine’s Azov Battalion, famed for its near-suicidal bravery and ultra-nationalist views, is spearheading a Ukrainian counter-offensive along the country’s Black Sea coast today.

Posting a picture of their troops on Feb. 10 outside Pavlopil town hall, some 35 kilometers northeast of their base in the strategic port city of Mariupol, the battalion said that it had also seized the villages of Oktyabyr and Shyrokyne on their way to assault the Russian and separatist-held city of Novoazovsk.

“Ukrainian flags are already flying on government buildings in Pavlopil, Oktyabyr and Shyrokyne,” Azov Battalion press officer Andrii Biletski told the Kyiv Post live from the offensive.

“Our exact position now is secret, but we’re going all the way to Novoazovsk.”

Alors que plus au nord, Debaltseve est encerclée, la milice néo-nazie progresse le long de la Mer Noire et se donne pour objectif d’atteindre la frontière.