Kiev Military Op in Eastern Ukraine, civilians reported killed

By Ralph Turchiano on April 15, 2014

Tuesday, 15 April 2014

The activists who controlled the base said they were forced to retreat.
“There are about 60 units of armored vehicles. They have been preparing for several days, and now they started to storm [the airfield]. The protesters blocked their way, they started shooting, there are wounded. Our people retreated. There are about 15 tanks, the other units are armored personnel vehicles,” another member of the people’s militia told RIA.
In turn, the Ukrainian media, quoting the Ministry of Defense, announced a special operation in Kramatorsk on Tuesday. However, they provided no further details

Slavyansk
At the same time, the eastern city of Slavyansk is being raided by Ukrainian troops, the head of the Donbass people’s militia, Sergey Tsyplakov, told RIA Novosti.
“Currently there is a major attack on Slavyansk, armored personnel vehicles are entering the city… there are many troops. The men are getting ready to defend [the city],” he said.

“There is a lot of military machinery here,” said one of the activists. “But the shooting hasn’t started yet.”
Anti-government protesters have been holding rallies in the south-eastern part of the country following the coup in Kiev on February 22. Activists have seized government buildings in most of the cities in the Donetsk region. On Sunday, the Kiev government launched a crackdown operation in Slavyansk. Following the event, Ukraine’s Security Council approved a full-scale security operation in the country’s eastern regions. On Monday, coup-imposed President Aleksandr Turchinov signed a decree to officially begin a “special anti-terrorist operation” in the east of the country.

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A Ukrainian security authority, who was appointed chief of the security operation in eastern Ukraine, said on Tuesday that all activists who do not lay down their arms would be “destroyed.”
“They must be warned that if they do not lay down their arms, they will be destroyed,” Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) General Vasily Krutov told reporters as cited by AFP.

Moscow slammed Sunday’s order as “criminal.” It was issued by the coup-imposed acting President Aleksandr Turchinov who approved a full-scale security operation in the country’s eastern regions.
Meanwhile, Ukraining MP Leysa Orobets wrote in her FB Status that the miliraty has killed 10 ethnic Russians and that was very good news!