D&B Briefing: The Economic & Political Situation in the Ukraine | 3/17/14Dun & Bradstreet
D&B has downgraded Ukraine’s country risk rating to DB6c (in our "very high risk" category) from its already poor score of DB6b (on a scale of 1-7, with 7 being the highest possible level of operational risk). The downgrade stems from the significant recent deterioration in the country’s business operating environment. This article gives more insight into the current situation in Ukraine and why their risk rating was downgraded.
Authors’ note:
A lot is happening parallel since Russia started its invasion of Ukraine on the 24th February 2022. In my bulletin I aim to conclude and share the information what I have gathered either through the support of the European Cyber Community or through my discussions with current and former members of armed forces in Europe. As my main profession – raising cyber resilience for organizations and nations to resist large scale cyber and hybrid incidents – requires me to holistically analyze the impact of multiple events happening parallel, I will not only focus on the cyber space aspect, but on all aspects that I find important to analyze and gain situational awareness with. For the strictly military movement timeline and events or ongoing fights there are many trustworthy resources out there, hence I will not put focus on that, same with each individual topics. This is not a study, I will not provide links and references. Many of the information you can simply search for, some are relying on personal discussions with subject matter experts.
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D&B Briefing: The Economic & Political Situation in the Ukraine | 3/17/14Dun & Bradstreet
D&B has downgraded Ukraine’s country risk rating to DB6c (in our "very high risk" category) from its already poor score of DB6b (on a scale of 1-7, with 7 being the highest possible level of operational risk). The downgrade stems from the significant recent deterioration in the country’s business operating environment. This article gives more insight into the current situation in Ukraine and why their risk rating was downgraded.
Authors’ note:
A lot is happening parallel since Russia started its invasion of Ukraine on the 24th February 2022. In my bulletin I aim to conclude and share the information what I have gathered either through the support of the European Cyber Community or through my discussions with current and former members of armed forces in Europe. As my main profession – raising cyber resilience for organizations and nations to resist large scale cyber and hybrid incidents – requires me to holistically analyze the impact of multiple events happening parallel, I will not only focus on the cyber space aspect, but on all aspects that I find important to analyze and gain situational awareness with. For the strictly military movement timeline and events or ongoing fights there are many trustworthy resources out there, hence I will not put focus on that, same with each individual topics. This is not a study, I will not provide links and references. Many of the information you can simply search for, some are relying on personal discussions with subject matter experts.
Nation Observes Day of Mourning After Aktobe Terrorist Attack. KADEX 2016 Military Expo Draws Participants from 40 Countries. PM Massimov, Counterparts Discuss CIS Cooperation in Bishkek. Kazakh Opera Returns to Her Roots after Succeeding in Italy
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террористы путина на донбассе Russian war crimes_in_eastern_ukraine_in_2014John Connor
Польское издание Tygodnik Powszechny опубликовало интервью с соавтором доклада о военных преступлениях РФ в Донбассе, бывшим полицейским с псевдонимом Адам Новак. В материале рассказывается о жестоких пытках, которым подвергали украинских военных выходцы с Кавказа, террористы ДНР и ЛНР, а также сотрудники Главного разведывательного управления Генштаба РФ; о "конкуренции" между различными группировками боевиков, завладении недвижимостью местных жителей и военно-полевых судах, выносящих расстрельные приговоры.
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southern Ukraine by soldiers and officials of the Russian Federation and by the pro-Russian
separatist fighters.
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The “green men” who fanned out across Crimea in early 2014, establishing control over key infrastructure and clearing the way for once-marginal political actors to seize the reins of power, were the vanguard of a forced political change that has led to grave human rights abuses across the Crimean peninsula.
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1. OPEN DIALOG FOUNDATION
Open Dialog Foundation, 11a Szucha Avenue, office 21, 00-580 Warsaw, Poland
Tel. + (48) 22 307 11 22
www.odfoundation.eu
Warsaw, 19 March 2013
First Ukrainian soldier killed in Crimea
As a result of the storming of the Ukrainian military unit in Simferopol, a Ukrainian soldier was
killed and two soldiers were wounded. According to eyewitnesses, Russian Special Forces were the
first to shoot. Armed militants are trying to capture other Ukrainian military units. Ukrainian
authorities claim that the conflict with Russia has moved from the political sphere to a military
one.
In the evening of 18 March, 2014, the photogrammetric information centre1
of the Ministry of
Defence of Ukraine in Simferopol was captured as a result of storming. According to the group
‘Information resistance’, the storming was carried out by Russian special forces and the so-called
‘Crimean self-defence forces’, with the support of Crimea’s police (the police cordoned off the area of
the operation). Representatives of the Federal Security Service (FSB ) of Russia wearing plain clothes,
were present at the scene. According to eyewitnesses, the first to open fire were Russian Special
Forces who shot in the direction of Ukrainian soldiers and members of the ‘self-defence forces’.
This provoked indiscriminate shooting by the militants of ‘self-defence forces’ in the direction of the
Ukrainian soldiers.2
Reports that shooting was initiated by Russian Special Forces were also confirmed
by foreign journalists who were present at the scene.3
The incident resulted in the death of Warrant Officer, Sergey Kakurin from the Ukrainian military unit,
who was in the watchtower of the vehicle park of the military unit. According to official reports, he
was killed by a direct shot to the heart. Also, Captain Viktor Fedun sustained gunshot wounds to the
neck and arm. Another soldier was seriously injured as a result of battery by representatives of the
‘self-defence forces’. Also, attackers captured the commander of the unit, Colonel Andrey
Andryushun and arrested the remaining Ukrainian soldiers who were present at the unit at that
moment.4
It is worth noting that in connection with the incident, the Crimean and Russian media disseminated
starkly opposing information to that aired by the Ukrainian party - that it was a representative of the
‘Crimean self-defence forces’ who was shot to death and two other men were wounded.5
Neither
Ukrainian, nor the international media confirmed this information, which suggests that it was
deliberate disinformation, designed to provoke further escalation of the conflict.
On 18 March, 2014, Crimean police announced that the armed conflict was provoked by unknown
people, who began to shoot on Ukrainian soldiers and militants of the ‘self-defence forces’.
“According to the information received, shots were fired from one place in two directions. An
unknown person shot from the window of an unfinished building, located in the vicinity of a military
unit. The shots were fired at soldiers of the self-defence forces, who were checking the signal of the
presence in of armed men in the building, and towards the Ukrainian military unit, situated nearby”, -
1
The centre for development of topographic maps
2
https://www.facebook.com/dmitry.tymchuk/posts/471236576338336?stream_ref=10
3
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2014/03/ukrainian-serviceman-wounded-crimea-201431815240891892.html
4
http://www.radiosvoboda.org/content/article/25301730.html
5
http://www.rg.ru/2014/03/18/strelba-anons.html
2. www.odfoundation.eu
Crimean police reported.6
Russian media reported that one of the ‘snipers’ was allegedly detained
by the ‘Crimean self-defence forces’ – the person transpired to be 18-year-old resident of Lvov,
linked to the Ukrainian nationalist organisation ‘Pravyi sektor’ [The Right Sector’].7
When making a statement about the death of a Ukrainian soldier in the Crimea, Ukraine’s Prime
Minister Yatsenyuk enunciated that the conflict between Ukraine and Russia has moved from the
political stage to the military stage. In this regard, he called for a commission to be established on the
level of the defence ministries of the countries which are guarantors of the territorial integrity and
security of Ukraine according to the Budapest memorandum (UK, Russia, USA).8
After the death of
the Ukrainian soldier, military units stationed in the Crimea were permitted to use weapons.9
On 19 March, 2014, the storming of the Ukrainian military units in Crimea continued. In the
morning, the militants of the ‘self-defence forces’ began to storm the headquarters of the Naval
Forces of Ukraine in Sevastopol. In particular, they broke the gates near the checkpoint of the
headquarters. Ukrainian soldiers barricaded themselves in the office premises.10
Representatives of
the ‘self-defense forces’ of the Crimea are also striving to storm the headquarters of the Southern
Naval Base of the Naval Forces of Ukraine in the village of Novoozernoye (near Yevpatoriya).
According to eyewitnesses, the storming of both military units were carried out at a similar
scenario: in the forefront, there were women and children, followed by representatives of the ‘self-
defence forces’, and behind them - Russian soldiers.11
Ukrainian media have also reported that the
36th military brigade in the village of Perevalnoye of the Simferopol District has ceased to resist
invaders and turns in its arms.12
The new wave of tensions on the peninsula coincided with the signing of the agreement in Moscow
on the annexation of the Crimea by the Russian Federation (signed on 18 March, 2014). The
agreement is based on the alleged ‘will expressed by the population of the Crimea’, who in the
referendum on 16 March, 2014, voted in favour of joining Russia as a new member of the Federation.
The referendum took place without the participation of international observers and with numerous
irregularities. For example, in Sevastopol, as shown by the final calculations, as many as 123% of the
townspeople voted for joining the Crimea in the Russian Federation.13
Most of the countries in the
world labelled the referendum in the Crimea ‘illegal’ and did not recognise its results. Among the
countries which have recognised the referendum in the Crimea are: Venezuela, Kazakhstan,
Mongolia, Russia, North Korea and Syria. As for Kazakhstan, the leadership of the country stated that
they ‘understand’ Russia’s decision regarding the annexation of the Crimea.14
Open Dialog Foundation believes that the assassination of the Ukrainian serviceman is an
implementation of a part of the planned provocation by Russian intelligence services in order to
destabilise the situation in Ukraine. In the wake of the annexation of the peninsula, an operation is
carried out with the aim of creating a source of tension between soldiers of Ukrainian military units
and militants of the so-called ‘self-defence forces’ of the Crimea. The international community
must immediately employ specific actions designed to resolve the situation in the Crimea, so that
further bloodshed is prevented. In order to stabilise the situation in Ukraine and ensure security in
the region, Open Dialog Foundation recommends that Western countries:
6
http://www.crm-mia.gov.ua/ru/news/provoditsya-rassledovanie-obstoyatelstv-proisshedshego-na-ulice-kubanskoy-v-simferopole
7
http://www.rg.ru/2014/03/19/snaiper-site.html
8
http://ipress.ua/news/yatsenyuk_konstatuvav_shcho_konflikt_z_rosiieyu_pereyshov_iz_politychnoi_na_viyskovu_stadiyu_55080.html
9
http://www.unian.ua/politics/897970-ukrajinskim-viyskovim-u-krimu-dozvolili-zastosovuvati-zbroyu-minoboroni.html
10
http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2014/03/19/7019505/
11
http://www.radiosvoboda.org/content/article/25302189.html
12
http://tvi.ua/new/2014/03/19/ukrayinski_viyskovi_v_perevalnomu_prypynyayut_opir_rosiyanam
13
http://ipress.ua/news/za_pryiednannya_krymu_do_rf_progolosuvalo_123_sevastopoltsiv_54829.html
14
http://mfa.gov.kz/ru/#!/news/article/13800
3. www.odfoundation.eu
1. render assistance in the process of modernisation and reformation of the Ukrainian army;
2. cease cooperation with Russia and other authoritarian states which recognised the
referendum in the Crimea, in the military-technical sphere;
3. convey to Ukraine the experience and assistance in the implementation of anti-corruption
reforms and lustration in all spheres of the government;
4. carry out an international investigation into the incidents of political oppression in Ukraine
in the period between November 2013 and February 2014;
5. render financial assistance to Ukraine with the condition that monitoring the payment of
the money is carried out by civil society;
6. raise public awareness by conducting a campaign promoting economic reform in Ukraine.
For more detailed information, please contact:
Lyudmyla Kozlovska, The Open Dialog Foundation
lyudmylakozlovska@odfoundation.eu