Maidan Community Sector, Lviv: Dear friends!
War, not the expected peace arrived at the doorstep of Great Britain and France when they gave up Czechoslovakia to Hitler in 1938. War is happening right here at home and not in faraway Europe – the United States were harshly reminded about this at Pearl Harbor in 1942. War descended on Ukraine and thus is now much closer to Paris and Berlin, because Europe and the US haven’t supported Georgia in 2008. War showed up in the homes of Dutch, British, French, German, Australian families because Europe and the US weren’t courageous enough to lend a helping hand to Ukraine in 2014. It is impossible to run away from war and overwhelming aggression, it is impossible to buy yourself off. The war will catch up with you if you don’t stand up to it with utmost determination.
September 18 – Russia has put forward three demands regarding EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. The essence of these demands is to implement nothing, enter no other agreements and make sure such position in “cemented” legally. Russia is unilaterally deciding what Ukraine and the EU should do in their bilateral relations.
September 18 – Donbas has experienced heavy shelling by the Russian army and terrorists – this is what the truce “Russian-style” feels like. In Luhansk oblast the terrorists were shelling the areas near the towns Girske, Zolote, Orikhiv, Chornukhine, Stanytsia Luhanska, Sievierodonetsk and Shchastya – the latter is now heavily destroyed, – informed the spokesman for the National Security and Defense Council Andriy Lysenko. “In the east, Ukrainian troops are keeping to the ceasefire conditions. At the same time the terrorists continue to shell ATO positions”.
September 18 – Approximately 4000 heavily armed Russian military have moved forward from the northern part of Crimea closer to the administrative border with mainland Ukraine, – said the spokesman for the National Security and Defense Council Andriy Lysenko
September 18 – Russia is supplying the terrorist in the east of Ukraine with modern air defense systems – Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND).
September 18 – In his US Congress speech, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has stated that he is ready to provide the separatists with more rights, however territorial integrity of Ukraine must remain intact.
September 18 – President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has called upon the US to grant Ukraine with a special security status to reflect a highest level of cooperation with a non-NATO state (similar to Israel or South Korea).
