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Body of Ukrainian soldier found hanging from high-voltage overhead cables after being blown clean out of armoured vehicle after shell attack
The body of a Ukrainian soldier has been found hanging from a high-voltage power line after he was blasted clear of his armoured vehicle after it was hit with a shell. The man was killed near the village of Novokaterynivka, in eastern Ukraine after pro-Russian separatists intercepted a column of Ukrainian army armour. The attack comes as the International Money Fund has warned that Ukraine may need a bailout from the international community if the conflict against pro-Russian forces continues. And UN officials have revealed that more than a million people have left their homes because of the escalating conflict. UN's Vincent Cochetel, in Geneva, said in the past three weeks, the number of people displaced inside Ukraine itself has doubled to at least 260,000, while another 814,000 have crossed into Russia this year. Scroll down for videos  The man's body can be seen near the destroyed remains of a Ukrainian Armoured Personnel carrier which was destroyed near Novkaterynika, eastern Ukraine  It is not known how long the man's body has been hanging from the power line or when a rescue crew will attempt to recover his remains The IMF warned that as things stand, the Ukrainian treasury would require an additional $19billion in support by the end of 2015. If the fighting eases over the coming months, the country's economy would still be shrinking by a sharp 6.5 percent this year, with meager growth on the horizon next year, according to the IMF. Analysts, however, say the damage to Ukraine's economy is likely to be more severe. Timothy Ash, head of emerging markets research at Standard Bank in London said: 'There is no end in sight to the conflict, so it's almost impossible to make growth forecasts. The recession this year will be deeper - maybe minus eight per cent - and there will be no recovery next year.'  Pro-Russian rebels drive past destroyed Ukrainian armour near Novokaterynivka after the defenders lost a significant amount of territory following the attack  The turret of a Ukrainian tank was blasted clean off its chassis after it was hit by an armoured piercing round exploding the vehicle's magazine  Several of the Ukrainian armoured vehicles were abandoned after they were ambushed by pro-Russian rebels In March, the IMF authorised a $17 billion bailout programme on the understanding that it introduced some harsh austerity measures. Ukraine will also require additional support once the conflict ceases to rebuild the shattered infrastructure in the east of the country. The European Union will meet tomorrow and decide upon new strict sanctions against Russia by the weekend. New incoming EU Foreign Policy chief Federica Mogherini warned Russia over its future conduct in connection with Ukraine. She said: 'Things on the ground are getting more and more dramatic. We speak about an aggression and I think that we need to respond in the strongest possible way to that, in order that pressure is put to find a political solution.' She said EU foreign ministers were meeting tomorrow and will decide on a course of action on Friday.  The remains of a armoured vehicle destroyed by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine litter the battlefield as Vladimir Putin warns the West against looking for sanctions  A pro-Russian separatist stands next to an armoured personnel carrier in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine sporting a homage to the old Soviet Union Russia has revealed it is urgently updating its military doctrine, accusing NATO of posing a direct military threat to its security by 'encroaching on our borders'. The Kremlin said any Western aggression on the annexed peninsula of Crimea would constitute an attack on Russia itself, and would therefore be met 'with all due consequences'. The warning comes amid heightened East-West tension over the crisis in Ukraine, with Vladimir Putin telling European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso: 'If I want to, I can take Kiev in two weeks.' U.S. president Barack Obama will travel to Estonia tomorrow - his second visit to a former Soviet state this year - to assure nervous Baltic leaders of his ironclad commitment to their security, amid growing fears Russia may move to seize territory from other neighbouring countries.  All smiles: Vladimir Putin talks to local residents as he inspects a section of the Chita-Khabarovsk highway in Russia this morning. The Kremlin today said any Western aggression on the annexed peninsula of Crimea would constitute an attack on Russia itself, and would therefore be met 'with all due consequences'  Welcome: Vladimir Putin meets with student construction team members as he visits the site of the Vostochny space launch centre this morning  Briefing: Oleg Ostapenko, the head of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin visit the construction site of the Vostochny space launch centre today  Stern: Russia's President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting on the development of the Vostochny space launch centre this morning UKRAINIAN POLITICIAN IN ANTI-PUTIN T-SHIRT DOES THE ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE TO RAISE MONEY FOR TROOPS Ukrianian ultra nationalist politician Oleh Tyahnibok took the Ice Bucket Challenge, passing on money he raised fighters to opposing the alleged invasion by Russian forces. Wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with an abbreviation of an anti-Vladimir Putin slogan (standing for Putin **** Off), he vowed: 'I pass the money to the "Sech" battalion for fighting with the enemy.' After his drenching, he alluded to the hot water being switched off in Kiev in a bid to save gas for the winter. 'It is good that we do not have hot water in Kiev, so we wash ourselves in cold,' said the 45 year old Ukrainian MP. The politician - leader of the nationalist party 'Svoboda' (Freedom) party - he recently called for the imposition of martial law in Ukraine to country what he sees as Russian aggression. He called for a military alliance with the US. He strongly opposes Russian being made an official language in Ukraine. 'It is a surrender to the demands of the Russian aggressor Putin that strategically leads to the destruction of a unified Ukraine,' he said. 'While "Svoboda" is in parliament, we will not allow the Russian language official status in Ukraine or in some regions.' Tyahnibok nominated pro-Western Ukrainian prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to take the challenge. Also taking the challenge with him was Ukrainian actor and politician Bohdan Beniuk. With a major NATO summit in Wales this week, the deputy chairman of the Kremlin's powerful Security Council said the new Russian military doctrine would be in place later this year. 'I have no doubts that the issue of NATO military infrastructure encroaching on our borders, including through the expansion of the alliance, will remain among the biggest military threats to the Russian Federation,' he said. Moscow has previously expressed alarm at how a pro-Western Ukraine could bring NATO bases and weapons close to its frontier. Popov also issued a warning today that any aggression on the annexed peninsula of Crimea would constitute an attack on Russia 'with all due consequences', and alleged the U.S. global missile defence system was also a threat to his country. His comments come ahead of a visit by U.S. president Barack Obama to former Soviet republic Estonia, where he will meet with Baltic leaders concerned about the threat posed by Russia. With the West seemingly unwilling or unable to halt Russian aggression in Ukraine, several other former members of the Soviet Union have expressed fears that Moscow may soon move to claim territory from their countries too. Obama aims to allay concerns by insisting the security of nations bordering Russia is very much a priority.  Conflict: Ukraine today claimed that the hidden death toll suffered by Russian troops - who it claims are embedded with pro-Moscow rebels - has hit more than 2,000. Oleksandr Danylyuk, adviser to the Ukrainian defence minister Valeriy Heletey, said most of those killed by Ukrainian forces (pictured) were Russian paratroopers  Preparation: Ukrainian servicemen from the Azov Battalion train volunteers in the south eastern city of Mariupol. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today warned Western powers 'there is no military solution' to the Ukraine crisis  The Ukrainian flag flies on top of Donetsk airport this morning, as vehicles damaged in the battle to reclaim the area sit abandoned in the road. Ukraine's military reported losing 15 soldiers over the last 24 hours of fighting with eastern insurgents, who it claims are backed up by Russian weapons and troops  Fireworks: A military music festival was held in Moscow's Red Square last night, celebrating the power and historic achievements of the Russian army  Warning: Vladimir Putin (right) made a bellicose statement to the European Commission President, Jose Manual Barroso (left), telling him that his armed forces could 'take Kiev in a fortnight'. The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today warned Western powers 'there is no military solution' to the Ukraine crisis SECURITY SERVICES IN KAZAKHSTAN ON ALERT AFTER A NUCLEAR CONTAINER 'FELL OFF BACK OF LORRY'The security services in Kazakhstan are on alert after a container of highly radioactive caesium-137 'fell off the back of a lorry'. Concern is growing over the canister which vanished one week ago (Aug 27) amid fears it could fall into the hands of criminals or terrorists. It was unclear why the authorities failed to announce the material - often used for military and medical purposes - was missing in Mangistau region. 'The container with the radioactive isotope caesium-137 has not been found so far,' said police spokesman Azamat Sarsenbayev. The Kazakh government has not revealed the origin of the radioactive material which was in a metal container weighing 50-60 kg. Caesium-137, which has a half-life of 30 years, can result in severe burns or even death, and cause significant contamination. Kazakhstan - made famous by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's character Borat - inherited nuclear warheads and a weapons test site when the Soviet Union collapsed. Ukrainian sources claimed today that Russian has suffered a vast hitherto unknown death toll from operations inside Ukraine. Oleksandr Danylyuk, adviser to the Ukrainian defence minister Valeriy Heletey, alleged around 2,000 regular Russian servicemen have been killed in Ukraine. 'Around 2,000 regular Russian soldiers, mainly paratroopers, have paid with their lives for the invasion of Ukraine,' he said. It was not possible to verify the assertions which go far beyond any previous estimates. Military analyst Dmitry Tymchuk claimed that the Russian army has commandeered a large plot of land in Krasny Luch settlement, in Lugansk region, to bury slain fighters. "According to our information, we are talking about killed Russian soldiers here," he said. Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council claimed up to 15,000 Russian troops and rebel fighters are now inside its borders. "Between 10,000 and 15,000 Russian Federation's troops are on Ukraine's territory, including terrorists," said spokesman Andriy Lysenko.  Tense: Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) shook hands with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (right) at a crisis meeting in the Belorusian capital Minsk last week. Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev (center) looks on ahead of the crunch talks  Decline: A pro-Russian rebel watches as Ukrainian troops evacuated from the rebel-held town of Starobesheve pass by. Ukrainian government forces have succumbed to a sequence of military failures and have seen their holdings in the conflict-ridden east shrink in recent days  Prisoners of war: Ukrainian servicemen captured by pro-Russian separatists, sit on the ground as they are assigned to clean a street in the rebel-held town of Snizhne Russia today hit back at claims from Heletey that a 'great war arrived at our doorstep, the likes of which Europe has not seen since World War II', forecasting 'tens of thousands of deaths'. Questioning the defence minister's sanity, the Russian foreign ministry said his 'announcement that we should get ready for dozens of thousands of victims in a so-called 'Great patriotic war', which is actually a new punishment operation inside his own country was shocking. 'He is taking the Ukrainian nation to a new round of bloody civil resistance. Such sacrilegious desire to remain in his chair by all costs is unique for Europe. 'We can hardly believe that such a statement can be from the defence minister of a civilised state. 'In other words, we just cannot understand how dozens of thousands of Ukrainian families entrusted to this man the lives of their children, brothers and husbands, recruited to the Ukrainian army to take part in a killing war of brothers in their own country'. The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today warned Western powers 'there is no military solution' to the Ukraine crisis. Ban said he was greatly concerned at developments in Ukraine and wanted to avoid further deterioration to 'a very chaotic and dangerous situation'. 'I know the European Union, the Americans and most of the Western countries are discussing very seriously among themselves how to handle this matter,' he said. 'What is important at this time is that they should know there is no military solution in this. There should be a political dialogue for a political solution, that is the more sustainable way.' FATHER-OF-32 LEADS WORLD WAR ONE-STYLE TRENCH DIGGING IN BID TO KEEP OUT RUSSIANS (AND HE IS RUSSIAN) A father-of-32 is leading a campaign to dig World War One style trenches around the strategic Ukrainian port of Mariupol in a bid to prevent pro-Kremlin forces seizing the city. Gennady Mokhnenko is an ethnic Russian, but he and many of his children - 29 are adopted - are seeking to defend the city. 'Digging trenches along with my sons in Mariupol,' he posted on his social networking site. 'Somebody wake me up and let's laugh together at this stupid dream.  Father-of-32 Gennady Mokhnenko is leading a campaign to dig World War One style trenches around the strategic Ukrainian port of Mariupol in a bid to prevent pro-Kremlin forces seizing the city 'Me, a Russian man, along with my adopted sons dig trenches under Mariupol, preparing to repel the attack of Russian tanks - they are only 20 km away. 'God, how I want to wake up and laugh heartily over this nightmare. But, alas.' This 46-year-old Mariupol defender is senior cleric, described as a bishop, in the 'Church of Good Changes' in Mariupol. He is founder of rehabilitation centres for adults, and a leader of an extraordinary campaign to identify adoptive parents for thousands of children languishing in orphanages. The campaign's name: 'You will be found'.  Gennady Mokhnenko is an ethnic Russian, but he and many of his children - 29 are adopted - are seeking to defend the city  This 46-year-old Mariupol defender is senior cleric, described as a bishop, in the 'Church of Good Changes' in Mariupol. He is founder of rehabilitation centres for adults, and a leader of an extraordinary campaign to identify adoptive parents for thousands of children languishing in orphanages Seen as a local hero, he has also set up several charities to help local children. The trenches look eerily similar to those of World War One, and they were dug by worried residents who say there is no appetite for a Russian invasion of the city. Locals are using sand bags and concrete to keep the trenches intact. However, there was speculation today that the threat to Mariupol may come from another direction - attack by Russian naval vessels from the Azov Sea. The 'New Mariupol' volunteer organisation is seeking to coordinate the resistance, despite the presence of dozens of tanks - allegedly supplied by Russia or belonging to Vladimir Putin's army - just a few miles away. 'Everybody in the city is mobilizing for this war,' said volunteer Marina Odnoro, who is seeking to supply a pro-Ukraine volunteer battalion stationed 15 miles to the east. The city's significance is as the main location on a route that the Russians could use as a land link to Crimea. Currently, the only route is by ferries which are unable to cope with the capacity of traffic to and from the peninsula which was annexed by Putin in March. |
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