A couple of Donetsk P.R. militia patrols almost blast each other accidentally (from 3:25).
God almighty. Who'd want to get caught between this lot and the national guard?
Here's a channel whose "выпуск новостей" are worth watching for concentrated footage from Donbass, just for images sake alone. Telekanal Donbass - seems to be a pro-Kiev channel, and also gives a lot of airtime to Rinat Akhmetov related themes, and the Voice of Donbass thing of his.
So much airtime that occasionally you might think he even... ...oh wait, yeah. He does...
Nevertheless, in today's Donbass roundup, the first section is on the fight between - supposedly of course - the
'Vostok' battalion of the DPR, and "black men"
'Donbass' pro-Kiev battalion in Karlovka. A high casualty event between militias outside of the state structures [ed. officially 9 wounded in hospital, without comment on the dead. But mention of up to 6 corpses]. From 3:30 some coverage of the Semyonovka shelling by the national guard. Worth noting as well is the section from 17:20 of footage seeming to show DPR militia holding-up and raiding a local council Electoral Commissioner's office, and fucking off with election-related materials. The news roundups also tend to have an almost comical, daily weather-report style graphic (18:30) of the day's proportion of administrative centres occupied by DPR/LPR militia.
Today's forecast is 12/22 for Donetsk oblast, 8/12 for Lugansk oblast. The suggestion seems to be that these administrations will therefore not be able to participate in Sunday's elections.
Meanwhile, in Korez, "black men" assassinate a DPR activist and almost kill another in a quick attack on their HQ-office in Korez. Presidential candidate Lyashko congratulates them
on facebook and refers to them as the
'Ukraine' Lyashko-Battalion
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukr...der-of-russian-backed-separatists-349093.html