NEW EXPLOSIONS IN KHARKOV – INCREASING GUERILLA ACTIVITY OR AN INSIDE JOB TO ANNOUNCE THE STATE OF EMERGENCY?

Just 24 hours after the incident with two grenades at the military hospital on Kultury street in Kharkov, two more powerful explosions were reported in the evening on the 21st November. The news very quickly spread around the Ukrainian news resources including some of the most prominent propaganda broadcasters like censor.net

The reports say that the explosions were very powerful and were heard by many people living in Moskalevka, Airport, Bavaria and a part of Gagarin Avenue districts. Some people wrote that they heard gunfire. Reported information indicates that the actual place of the attack is located somewhere around Osnova railway station. The picture supposedly supplied from the explosion site also suggests that it happened somewhere on a railway branch. The first information was posted by IT-Sector group, a pro-maidan group of political activists in Kharkov, who also supplied a picture of the fire from the scene of the incident. Surprisingly enough this very group was the first one to report the incident at the military hospital on the 20th November.

IT-Sector immediately blamed the attack on Kharkov guerillas mentioning that the guerillas also took the responsibility for the explosion at the military hospital (saying this despite the fact that the police reported that the explosions were caused by two grenades brought to the hospital by a Ukrainian army combatant). Local TV channels also broadcasted a special report about the “Kharkov guerillas terrorist group”, which is obviously financed by Kremlin. Ukrainian media are also blaming the guerillas for the explosion in the Wall pub in Kharkov earlier this month.

Despite such broad media coverage and seemingly justified analysis by the Ukrainian media, there are still serious doubts that the latest attacks were the result of any Kharkov ant-junta resistance groups. Firstly none of the groups actually took responsibility for the attacks. Secondly, although Donbass army is now going to form what they call a “Kharkov Division”, these are still the people, who are fighting in Donbass, not inside the city controlled by Ukraine. Apart from that, the rebel part of Donbass has a lot of other more vital problems to address than to arrange attacks in Kharkov. They have to prepare both their military and the civilian infrastructure for the winter season and to make sure they can go through the colds with minimum possible losses. Besides that Donbass resistance forces could arrange terrorist attacks very long ago, and they could easily target virtually any city in Ukraine, including the Western Ukrainian cities or Kiev, which would no doubt have much stronger effect on the overall situation with the civil conflict in the South-East. However, they never did this.

Thirdly, due to some very strange reason these attacks have not hurt anyone. That’s including the explosion in the Wall pub, which is known as the place often visited by the local Ukrainian nationalists, and which was presumably targeted at them.

Even the last explosions near Osnova railway station seem a bit strange if one looks at them in more detail. The latest attack was carried out at the very station, which was attacked by the guerillas a couple of months ago, which resulted into destruction of a fuel tank. Basically this is another attack at the same place, and there are only three reasons, which could cause it: (1) the place is run by complete idiots, who have not learnt the first lesson and even have not cared to guard the place more attentively; (2) there is a traitor among the Ukrainian forces, who helped to organize and carry out the attack; (3) the attacks were staged by the Ukrainians in order to achieve their own goals.

Although the first two options are not impossible, the third one still look like a more feasible one if we take a broader look at the whole situations and ask the usual “cui prodest” question, and there is a party on the Ukrainian side, which could be quite interested in such developments – this would be the current head of the Ministry of Interior, Mr. Avakov. He was born and grew up in Kharkov, and before actively engaging in big politics and becoming the Minister of Interior he managed to build a several-hundred-million-dollars-worth business empire. His activities in Kharkov also resulted into a conflict with another prominent Kharkov figure – current city Mayor Gennady Kernes. This many-year-long conflict with the mayor has turned into a very violent one this year. Gennady Kernes is still recovering from this summer’s assassination attempt, for which he openly blames Mr. Avakov.

Although both of these people (whose biographies have a lot of blank pages, and whose reputations are not crystal-clear) are holding official positions and serving their state, there are still many assets-related arguments between them, which remain unsolved.

Now Mr. Avakov has a serious advantage, because he is in charge of quite large armed forces and Mr. Kernes is generally disliked for his strong anti-maidan position earlier this year.

Mr. Avakov has not been wasting time, and he has already made Kharkov the place of permanent deployment for the Nazi Azov battalion, which has already be noticed in several political actions, and there is certainly a lot of potential for their use in the peaceful Kharkov.

Considering this facts these series explosions serves as a perfect reason for announcing the state of emergency in the city, imposing curfew and letting the armed thugs from Azov to patrol the streets along with or instead of the local police, search “suspicious” houses and arrest any property on a slightest suspicion of being connected with “separatists”. The central government in Kiev will receive another reason to continue their war-mongering hysteria, and the Ministry of Interior will receive a city with a million and a half inhabitants, where they can impose and play by their own rules.

Ukrainian junta badly needs more violence and war – partially for using it as an excuse for their absolute failure to manage the country they hijacked in February, partially for revenging their old competitors and taking away the assets they could not take during Yanukovich regime, and with the all political and other support the West and the United States in particular are now giving this “new democratic government” it is difficult to expect anything other than more failures, more blood and violence on the streets of Ukraine.

Dennis Schedrivy