Weapons and Chechen militants supporting Rebellion in Ukraine

Slaviansk lives under intermittent attacks, while the self-proclaimed government of the neighboring Donetsk tries to remain calm in the besieged city. The situation remains entrenched in eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian forces in their positions resist the great transaction announced earlier this week by the new president, Peter Poroshenko, ending up with the answer to the authority of the central government.

In Slaviansk, although the Ukrainian Army has not released any new major offensive after the attacks to punish the death of 12 of his men on Friday, helicopters flying over the city and are repeated skirmishes. The rebels claim to the Russian news agency Interfax forces are sporadically strafing Kiev residential areas. News of entire families trying to leave the town multiply, without being able to check their reliability. In Dnepropetrovsk, the capital of neighboring pro-Russian province to Donetsk, the refugee hosting services ensure that the flow of newcomers from Slaviank has not increased: it is still a steady trickle, but reduced. The Ukrainian forces argue that the reason is that the pro-Russian will not let anyone leave the area. The pro-Russian answer that people are sheltering in basements during attacks Artillery Kiev, but do not want to leave their city.

In the city of Donetsk  pro-Russian forces in Chechnya arrivals these days have imposed their law, giving an aura of professionalism to the defense of the city. Based on bulldozers have cleared the streets of improvised barricades the first rebels; They have also arrested some of these militias, accused of looting supermarkets. The present international press in the city has inventoried the damage in stores, especially supermarkets where some locals have come to stock free after they were gutted by gunmen.

The Guardian reports say these Chechen military, members of the Vostok Battalion, come walking freely across the border between Ukraine and Russia since April. Walk, ensuring that came to visit relatives, the militia have infiltrated the east. In the bloody attack of Donetsk international airport killed at least 33 of those Russian citizens. On Saturday, the rebels again attacked twice this very strategic position, without results, say Ukrainian officials said.

The United States has officially protested this Russian involvement in the conflict, Moscow responds to what has already removed two-thirds of the troops that had accumulated as prevention at the border with Ukraine. Putin ‘s government has also demanded Poroshenko cease attacks on its own population.

Next week is presented as crucial to the viability of the diplomatic conflict. The Russian company Gazprom threatened in early May to cut off gas to Kiev next Tuesday if you did not pay your debt. Tomorrow important negotiations are planned on the high price at which Russia wants to sell gas main point of disagreement. The role of the EU in the negotiations is expected to be important, being injured as a subsidiary of the energy blockage.

Russian analysts have public bank VTB  declared that Gazprom is expected to reduce prices to $ 350  per thousand cubic meters of fuel compared to the current 485. Kiev announced Friday during a round of negotiations with the gas company that was willing to pay 786 million dollars to be 3,500, but the Russians have warned that they will not sit to negotiate until that money does not reach them.

On the diplomatic level also highlights the inter Poroshenko and several international leaders as part of his round submission after being elected on May 25. Wednesday is scheduled to meet with U.S. President Barack Obama. This week the two presidents will also attend the commemoration of the Normandy landings, acts that have already confirmed their presence Vladimir Putin. If Poroshenko and Putin will meet is a total mystery.

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