Beyond the ninth circle of hell: what changes are waiting for the Ukrainian society after the war

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By Ivan Lisan for Odnako
Source: За девятым кругом ада: какие перемены ждут украинское общество после войны

Translated from Russian by Alexander

The civil war in Ukraine is like a huge meat grinder. The hands that turn the screw conveyor kill dozens of people every day and destroy thousands of people’s lives. However, any war will sooner or later come to an end, and the wounds on the tissue of society will gradually scar – though leaving an ugly trail of dead, wounded and displaced. Therefore it would be no harm to understand how Ukrainian society will change after the war.

Ukraine February 26th SITREP: A Ukrainian Smørrebrød

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Nothing major has happened over the past 24 hours, but a lot of small but interesting things have happened in the past couple of days.  What I propose to do first today is to list them with a URL to the original source:

A Ukrainian Smørrebrød:

According to a recent poll of the Latvian TV station TV3 82% of their viewers say that Russian media info is trustworthy.  Get the details here in English from FortRuss: http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/02/82-of-lithuanian-viewers-support-russia.html

Gorlovka: The punitive force of Ukrainian army is firing Pions

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Message from militia:
"We suggest to everyone to go to the shelters now. There is a battle in the northern part of the city. Tanks, artillery. The punitive force of Ukrainian army is firing Pions - self-propelled artillery guns. They shelled residential area in Kurganka. Ukrainian army is shelling the city from different directions. People's militia responds. It is an artillery duel."

400 Ukrainian soldiers surrender to Ukrainian militia

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Four hundred Ukrainian soldiers went over to the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR), Sergey Kavtaradze, special representative of the DNR's PM, said.

"Yesterday, a military formation that amounted to 400 soldiers surrendered to 15 soldiers of the militia. The skirmish lasted for seven hours. No militia's soldiers were killed," Sergey Kavtaradze said.

Ukrainian plane burns down completely in Leipzig airport - No one hurt

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An An-12 plane burned down in the Leipzig/Halle Airport, the website aero.de reported on Friday.

According to aero.de, the fire began in the middle part of the plane after 2:00 am on Friday.

Despite the fact that some sixty people and 15 firefighting vehicles were used to extinguish the fire, the plane burned down completely.

Continue After The Break.....

Ukrainian plane suspected to be carrying Military hardwares detained in Kano

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Security agents have detained an Ukrainian cargo plane at the Kano International Airport for carrying suspected military hardware. Vanguard gathered that investigation is ongoing on the owners and the destination of the cargo.

This is coming few weeks after weapons believed to belong to Hezbollah was uncovered in a building belonging to a Lebanese businessman in Kano. The items recovered from the building include; 40 air-to-surface missiles, 50 cluster bombs, 200 rocket-propel launcher, eight AK-47 rifles, 200 military hand grenades, uncountable number of live ammunition and certain military hard wares deployed to destroy Armoured Personnel Carriers, APC.

Details later.

Again !!! Ukrainian Deputies Trade Blows In Parliament, Session Suspended.( Video)

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If you're a member of the Ukrainian parliament fighting skills come in handy.
Deputies from opposition and pro-government parties blocked the first session of Ukraine's parliament on Wednesday (December 12) after numerous fights erupted in the parliament chamber. Scuffles erupted when members of several parties approached the stand simultaneously and attempted to push each other out of the way.