FULL REPORT OF TODAY’S UGLY ACTIONS BY UKRAINIAN DEGENERATE’S IN KIEV, LVIV AND ODESSA: Protesters have thrown eggs at the building of the Russian Consulate General in Odessa and painted the gates red. Around 100 people took part in the protest in support of former Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko who is currently on trial in Russia over the killing of two journalists in Donbass in June 2014. Among demonstrators were representatives of the so-called “Maidan self-defense,” of the Right Sector organization banned in Russia and Azov civilian corps.
A group of demonstrators tried to break through to the territory of the diplomatic mission, “112 Ukraina” TV channel reported. Protesters clashed with guards, the police used batons and tear gas. Protesters called for closing the Russian diplomatic mission in Odessa. There have been no reports yet on whether anyone was detained.
Radicals scuffle with Ukrainian National Guards near Russian Consulate General in Odessa
According to the acting Consulate General Vitaly Korchagin, Ukrainian extremists have scuffled with Ukraine’s National Guards protecting the territory of Russian Consulate General in Odessa. “Over 200 people have been protesting near the building since 2pm,” Korchagin said adding that among participants were representatives of the so-called “Maidan self-defense” and the Right Sector organization banned in Russia. They “brought barrels and hit them with sticks trying to add the noise and psychological effect to the demonstration,” the diplomat noted.
“I went out to them, they handed me the petition [to free former Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko],” Korchagin said. “The territory of the consulate is under increased protection of Ukrainian National Guards,” he added.
Korchagin said that several incidents occurred during the protest. “The gates were painted,” the diplomat noted.
Savchenko is now under trial in the city of Donetsk in Russia’s Rostov region. She is charged under three articles of the Russian Criminal Code “murder”, “attempted murder” and “illegal border crossing”. The victims in the case are the families of the killed journalists, and in the attempted murder case VGTRK operator Viktor Denisov and a number of residents of Lugansk who came under artillery fire. They refused to participate in the hearing of the sides’ arguments.
The trial against Savchenko began on September 22, 2015. Since July 25, 2015 the defendant has been kept in the SIZO-3 detention facility in Novocherkassk (about 30 km from Rostov-on-Don and 150 km from the Donetsk City Court) from where she is transported to the court hearings. She has been in custody for 1 year and 8 months.
Savchenko, 34, who has been held in Russian custody since July 2014, already went on hunger strike for 83 days last March. Russia’s prosecutor has called for a 23-year prison term and a fine of 100,000 rubles ($1,400) for Savchenko.
Russia’s investigators say Savchenko, the gunner of a Mi-24 helicopter, joined the Aidar militant battalion and in June 2014 conducted covert surveillance and direction of artillery bombarding targeting a checkpoint in the much-troubled Lugansk region. The settlement was full of civilians, including three Russian journalists.
Two Russian journalists Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin from the All-Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network (VGTRK) died in the shelling.
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The participants in the anti-Russian protests have ripped off the Russian flag from the building of the Russian Consulate General in Lviv, trampled it underfoot and then tried to burn it. The report of the incident was shown by the NewsOne local TV channel. Among the protesters was Verkhovna Rada member Vladimir Parasyuk who said there was no place for Russia’s Consulate General in Lviv.
Russian Consul General Oleg Astakhov told TASS that Parasyuk had staged a deliberate provocation.
“He asked to allow him to enter the territory of the consulate so that he could hand over a petition,” Astakhov said. “He was allowed to enter, two diplomats went to meet him. In the end, he did not hand anything over but demanded to remove the Russian flag. Of course, he was refused.”
“The deputy went to the flagpole and ripped off the flag,” the diplomat went on to say. “At the same time, around 15 people were trying to break through to the territory of the consulate. The guards did not allow this to happen. (Protesters) then threw eggs and petards,” he added.
Astakhov said the building of the consulate general is under increased protection of local police. The diplomat said that around 250 people took part in the anti-Russian demonstration.
When this information appeared in the media, Parasyuk tried to dissociate himself from the incident with the Russian flag. He told Ukraine’s 112 TV channel that he indeed entered the territory of the diplomatic mission where he was met by a diplomat whom he asked to remove the flag but was refused.
“After that I ripped off the flag myself and handed it over to the protesters. I have no idea of what they did with it later,” Parasyuk said.
However, it can be clearly seen in a TV report that he trampled the flag underfoot, and then the protesters tried to burn it.
The Russian Embassy in Kiev was also attacked earlier today. Unidentified people threw bottles with iodine at the building. The attacks were timed to coincide with the completion of the trial of Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko in Russia.
EARLIER REPORT:
Several hundred people have again staged a protest rally on Wednesday near the Russian embassy in Kiev. The protesters in the Ukrainian capital have been throwing bottles containing iodine solution at the building according to press secretary of the Russian embassy in Kiev Oleg Grishin.
“There are about 200 people near the embassy now. They are pelting the building with stones and iodine bottles”, he said.
Protesters have been picketing the Russian embassy building in Kiev for the third day running, demanding the release of Ukrainian ex-pilot Nadezhda Savchenko who is suspected of aiding in the murder of Russian journalists. Leader of the Batkivshchina (Fatherland) faction in the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (parliament) Yulia Timoshenko has joined the protesters at the embassy building.
Reinforced police squads are on duty at the embassy building on Wednesday. There are two rows of policemen cordoning off the embassy’s iron fence.
The protest actions have been going on since March 6. On that day, unknown perpetrators clad in camouflage uniforms and wearing balaclavas damaged with baseball bats cars with Russian diplomatic number plates and threw flares and smoke bombs at the Russian diplomatic mission. According to Grishin, the radicals were well armed and prepared the attack very well.
Russia has filed a note of protest with the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, however, the country’s authorities have issued no comment on the attack against the diplomatic mission.
“We have not received an answer yet to our note,” Grishin said.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has expressed a similar view.
Savchenko is now under trial in the city of Donetsk in Russia’s Rostov region. She is charged under three articles of the Russian Criminal Code – “murder”, “attempted murder” and “illegal border crossing”. The victims in the case are the families of the killed journalists, and in the attempted murder case — VGTRK operator Viktor Denisov and a number of residents of Lugansk who came under artillery fire. They refused to participate in the hearing of the sides’ arguments.
The trial against Savchenko began on September 22, 2015. Since July 25, 2015 the defendant has been kept in the SIZO-3 detention facility in Novocherkassk (about 30 km from Rostov-on-Don and 150 km from the Donetsk City Court) from where she is transported to the court hearings. She has been for 1 year and 8 months in custody.
Savchenko, 34, who has been held in Russian custody since July 2014, already went on hunger strike for 83 days last March. Russia’s prosecutor has called for a 23-year prison term and a fine of 100,000 rubles ($1,400) for Savchenko.
Russia’s investigators say Savchenko, the gunner of a Mi-24 helicopter, joined the Aidar militant battalion and in June 2014 conducted covert surveillance and direction of artillery bombarding targeting a checkpoint in the much-troubled Lugansk region. The settlement was full of civilians, including three Russian journalists.
Two Russian journalists — Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin — from the All-Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Network (VGTRK) died in the shelling.
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