#EuroMajdan # євромайдан Хроника 21/08/2014

UPD: 21/08/2014 Russian channel issues footage from Baikonur for shelling Makeyevka

Russian TV was once again caught cheating.

The Russian television channel Zvezda on the night of August 21 showed shelling by Ukrainian security forces from the Tochka-U Makeyevka missile complex in the Donetsk region, using footage from Baikonur. This was stated by the speaker of the information and analytical center of the NSDC Andrey Lysenko.

In particular, in the plot of the Russian television channel it was reported that the siloviki bombed the city in order to release him to the Independence Day. At the same time, showing the video, the Russians threatened Ukraine with an international scandal.

At the same time, NSDC analysts found that the picture that demonstrates the use of weapons of mass destruction in Makeyevka was in fact made during the Russian missile explosion on July 2, 2013 in Baikonur (Kazakhstan) after an unsuccessful launch.

UPD: 21/08/2014 Situation in the ATU zone as of August 21. MAP

The military operation of the ATU forces for the liberation from the cities of Donetsk, Lugansk, Ilovaysk, Krasnyi Luch, Shakhtersk, Torez, Snezhnoye, Zugres, Gorlovka and Stanichno-Luganskoe continues.

This was announced today at a briefing by the representative of the Information and Analytical Center of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Andrei Lysenko

In some areas of Ilovaysk, Donetsk region, fighting continues. The Ukrainian military successfully repulsed counter-attacks by terrorists. Now the reinforcements are arriving to the servicemen of the ATU forces.

According to the National Security and Defense Council, the situation in the ATU zone as of 12:00, on August 21 looks like on the map.

UPD: 21/08/2014 Russia has reclassified the case of the Ukrainian flag over the Moscow high-rise: The suspects are shining up to 7 years in prison

The Moscow police retrained the criminal case on the coloring of the star on the spire of the skyscraper on Kotelnicheskaya embankment in the colors of the Ukrainian flag from "vandalism" to "hooliganism."

The maximum penalty for hooliganism committed by a group of people is seven years of imprisonment, informs the Russian service of the BBC.

On Wednesday, Russian police detained four people on suspicion of involvement in this incident. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation reported the detention of two girls and two young people permanently residing in Moscow.

Recall that the night before in Moscow, unknown people repainted a star on the spire of Stalin's high-rise on Kotelnicheskaya embankment and hung a Ukrainian flag on the spire. Later, four suspects were detained.

UPD: 21/08/2014 Russian terrorists shot down Su-25, the fate of the pilot is unknown

August 20, in the Lugansk region was shot down a Su-25 aircraft, involved in an anti-terrorist operation.

"Today, it's true that when the combat mission was completed ... the Su-25 plane was hit, it fell." The pilot's fate is still unknown, but there is a hope that everything will be fine with him, "said the speaker of the NSDC information and analytical center Andrei Lysenko on the air of the TV channel "112 Ukraine" on Wednesday night.

A few days ago in the Lugansk region was shot down the fighter of the forces of the anti-terrorist operation MiG-29. The pilot managed to catapult, he was taken to a safe place. Earlier this month, militants shot down the Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter aircraft above Enakievo in the Donetsk region. At the same time, the terrorists shot down the Mi-8 ambulance helicopter. Earlier, Censor.NET reported that the pilot of the downed Ukrainian Mig-29 heroically walked along the enemy's rear about 40 km and went out to his own.

UPD: 21/08/2014 The Ukrainian army received the newest drones of the Zh. Queen. PHOTO reportage

The servicemen participating in the ATU have received unmanned aircraft of domestic production.

"The electronic eyes of reconnaissance of the forces of the ATU.So, such small, similar to children's air toys, aircraft appeared in the arsenal of ATU forces.The main task of these airplanes is to perform aerial reconnaissance of sectors occupied by terrorists," it was reported.

"One such product allows ATO management to save a lot of time in gathering operational intelligence information," said Major-General Yuriy Danik, the head of the Zhytomyr Military Institute named after SP Korolev, "And above all, it helps to save lives for our scouts and soldiers who, thanks to Aerial reconnaissance will not fall into an ambush, or in a timely manner will be warned about the fire attack. "

It should be noted that this unmanned aerial reconnaissance is a completely Ukrainian product. It was created by military engineers of the Zhitomir Military Institute named after S.P. The Queen together with other specialists. Now the device is successfully used to collect intelligence data in the "hot spots" of the ATU. Powerful camera lenses allow you to see even well-disguised positions of terrorists.

"In terms of its characteristics, the Ukrainian aerial unmanned reconnaissance surpasses all ionizing foreign models of this class, and of course is much cheaper in production and operation," the ATU headquarters said.

UPD: 21/08/2014 The first KamAZ of "Putin's gumcovoy" drove to Ukraine: eight more go after him, - journalist. PHOTO reportage

The first truck from the Russian column of humanitarian aid crossed the Russian border and stopped by in Ukraine.

This was reported by the Moscow-based journalist The New York Times Andrew Roth, who is at the scene, writes Ukrayinska Pravda.

"After almost a week in Donetsk, Russia, the first of 270 trucks with humanitarian aid crossed the Russian border," he wrote.

"The first truck is already in the customs zone, eight more are crossing the border at the moment." First the trucks have crossed into the border zone, "the journalist added and published a photo from the scene.