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EUROPE: Civilians die in latest Ukraine offensive, on Al Jazeera, August 3, 2014.

At least ten dead as government forces continue to close in on Donetsk, forcing rebel groups out of surrounding towns. At least ten civilians have been killed in new fighting between government forces and pro-Russian separatists around the cities of Luhansk and Donetsk in east Ukraine, local officials say.

Six people were killed in shelling and gunfire on the outskirts of Donetsk, Deputy Mayor Kostantyn Savinov said on Sunday, while city officials said three others were killed in shelling of Luhansk over the previous 24 hours. Officials in the frontline rebel base of Gorlivka reported one dead and 16 hurt in clashes there.  

Witnesses told Reuters news agency several buildings, including a school, caught fire in the outlying Petrovsky district. Many residents of Luhansk, which is close to the border with Russia, have no electricity and some are without water, the city administration’s press office said. Advances by the Ukrainian army have forced the rebels out of most of the towns they had occupied in Russian-speaking east Ukraine and squeezed them mainly into Luhansk and Donetsk … //

… Roads to the crash site were for days too dangerous to use because of fighting, but the experts finally got there on Friday and hope to recover the last of the victims’ remains. The victims included 196 Dutch, 27 Australians and 43 Malaysians.

Shelling nearby forced the experts to stop their search for human remains on Saturday in one area where debris was found, but they were able to work unhindered at the main site.

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(My comment: do you watch how the Ukrainian Civil War is more and more disapearing in our Mainstream Medias behind the Israel-Palestinian Killings? Be shure, there is not less slaughter there. I see, our real geopolitical future is worked out in Ukraine, thus as much as possible has to be hidden. I fear the more and more increasing Media Presence on Palestinian’s slaughter is made to let us look less at Urkaine. I name this play ‘the Westener’s dominance versus BRICS inclusive more-and-more other countries’ –  Stay aware).

Related Links:

• Over 400 Ukrainian troops cross into Russia for refuge, on Russia Today RT, August 4, 2014;
• NATO exerting pressure, not interested in MH17 investigation – Russia’s mission, on Russia Today RT, August 4, 2014;
• Ukraine eyes singer blacklist after nationalists disrupt concert, on Russia Today RT, August 4, 2014;
• Something Sinister Going On? The Unanswered Questions of Flight MH17, on The Market Orakle, by Mike Whithney, Aug 3, 2014;
• Kiev’s bloody eastern Ukraine campaign – LIVE UPDATES, on Russia Today RT, Published time: April 15, 2014 – Edited time: August 02, 2014;
• EU ‘quietly’ lifts ban on supplying Kiev with weapons and technology – Russia, on Russia Today RT, August 2, 2014;
• California and Ukraine National Guard gear up for military collaboration in 2015, on Russia Today RT, August 2, 2014;
• Ukraine’s Soviet-era drone captured by Donetsk militia (VIDEO), on Russia Today RT, August 2, 2014;
• MH17 – What Really Happened? on OpEdNews, by William Boarman, Aug 1, 2014: MH17 Shoot-Down Mystery Deepens since July 17 …;
• Featured: The Basic Reality and Simple Truth of Ukraine’s Civil War, on Axis of Logic, by Eric Zuesse, Washington’s Blog, August 1, 2014; with first video, 2.20 min (also on YouTube, uploaded there by Andrey Sm, July 27, 2014; and with second video, 0.35 min, from CASSAD TV: … and the aristocrats (who in Ukraine are called “oligarchs,” and in the U.S. are called “Wall Street” and “the elite” and various other non-descriptive names but are simply America’s aristocracy, our controlling families) go about their business of controlling “our” government and media, and of getting bailed out by us whenever their investments go so badly bust that they can’t pay their debts to each other – like happened in 2008) …;
• Antiwar protests spreading in Ukraine as gov’t wages all-out war in the southeast and NATO threatens Russia, on A Socialist in Canada (first on Rabble.ca and on LINKS: International Journal of Socialist Renewal), by Roger Annis, July 31, 2014;
• Loopholes Blunt Impact of U.S., EU Sanctions Over Ukraine, on The Wall Street Journal, by David Enrich, Gabriele Steinhauser, Matthew Dalton, July 30, 2014;
• Debate on Gaza: Ali Abunimah of Electronic Intifada vs. J.J. Goldberg of the Jewish Daily Forward, 19.18 min, on Socialist Unity, by SU editorial team, July 25, 2014: also on YouTube, uploaded there by democracynow, July 23, 2014: website Democracy NOW;
• World War 3: Russia* vs Ukraine and Europe – Simulation, 42.08 min, (with Stefan Molyneux and Paul Craig Roberts), uploaded by Marvin Stevens, July 24, 2014 … * (Russia: I do not see Russia acting against the acceptance of it’s BRICS-partners);

Other Links:

Obama’s ‘helplessness’ an act: Snowden reveals scale of US’s Israel backing, on Russia Today RT, August 4, 2014;

Tomgram: Engelhardt, Who Rules Washington? on TomDispatch, by Tom Engelhardt, August 3, 2014;

Russian sanctions crushing German business, on Russia Today RT, August 1, 2014;

Libya: Breaking alliances, on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Kamel Abdallah, July 24, 2014: Libya may have gone beyond the point of no return in its precipitous slide into civil war;

… and this:

Deuter – Night in Ubud, 7.42 min, uploaded by Музыкальный сайт Гусли, August 17, 2013.