Afghanistan 1979-1989 War Memorial

Ukrainians commemorate compatriots killed in Soviet-Afghan war

It's been 28 years since the Soviet Army officially withdrew its troops from Afghanistan. Today President Petro Poroshenko was the first official to lay flowers to the Memorial of the warriors killed in the bloody Soviet-Afghan war.

Veterans of the conflict also joined the solemn ceremony in Kyiv.

The war lasted over nine years (since late 1979 till early 1989) and claimed lives of dozens of thousands of servicemen from the both sides. However civilians took much more serious casualties over the period - about 2 million of them perished.

Over 3000 Ukrainians were killed in action during the conflict. 72 warriors were awarded with the title of hero of the Soviet Union during the war, 11 of them are Ukrainian nationals.

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OSCE on situation; Poroshenko; locals on ceasefire

Ukrainian officials attended a commemoration ceremony in Kiev on Sunday honouring soldiers killed during the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
The 1979-1989 war was part of the Cold War and was fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces and Islamic insurgent groups mostly supported by Pakistan and Iran.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, together with Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko, all laid flowers by a monument to the soldiers who lost their lives during the war.
The head of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), Ertugrul Apakan, was also at the ceremony.
He later told reporters that the OSCE monitors were refused access to the eastern Ukrainian town of Debaltseve, where Ukrainian forces have for weeks been fending off severe onslaughts from pro-Russian rebels.
The denial of entry to the town, Apakan said, violated the ceasefire agreement signed by the warring side, which guaranteed the OSCE access to all territories in eastern Ukraine, where fighting took place.
Residents of Horlivka, the city in the eastern Ukraine that, in the last months, came under constant fire, welcomed the ceasefire.
People there could be seen mending broken windows and walking around chatting with neighbours.


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Ukrainian Leaders Lay Flowers at Afghanistan Veterans Memorial: Monument honours fallen servicemen

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Ukrainian leaders laid flowers on Sunday at a monument in Kyiv honouring soldiers who served in the Soviet war with Afghanistan.

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Return to Kyiv, Ukraine

Impacted to see the destruction after the fatidic events of 2013 in this beautiful city.
War is destruction and death.

Kiev 1990

KIEV 30 de septiembre de 1990. Manifestación previa a las movilizaciones estudiantiles de octubre, en lo que luego se llamó La Revolución en el granito

[eng subs] Clashes at Shirokino sitrep by Indus [Hindu]. Attack of the UA terr.def. battalion.

[eng subs] Clashes at Shirokino sitrep by Indus [Hindu]. Attack of the UA terr.def. battalion.

Kyiv, some of the oldest churches in the city

Dating back to the XII century a.D.

Founder of horting Eduard Yeremenko in Afghanistan War

Documental Film about Founder of horting international fighting sport (MMA-HORTING) and President of the World Horting Federation Eduard Yeremenko (Kyiv, Ukraine) in Afghanistan War

Soviet Afghan War BEST WAR MUSIK plays for 15 MINUTES

The Best Ever Russian war music.

Lenin Statue Destroyed by Protesters in Ukraine

A statue of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin is toppled by demostrators in the Ukrainian capitol Kiev.

The statue was a symbol of Moscow's power over this former Soviet republic.

Demonstrators have grown furious that Kiev has ditched a landmark pact with the EU, in favor of a trade deal with Moscow.

They're demanding that President Viktor Yanukovich sack his own government.

The Soviet Story - trailer ( ten minutes)

PEOPLE IN THE FILM
The film crew interviewed more than 20 experts - leading Western and Russian historians, members of the European Parliament, a Soviet Secret agent, a Soviet military intelligence colonel, Soviet dissidents, GULAG inmates, as well as victims of the Famine-Genocide, deportations and of other Soviet crimes.

Norman Davies
historian, professor, Cambridge University:
People were being shot day and night throughout the biggest country in the world. Stalin even got to the point of killing people by random, by quotas.

Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet president:
Stalin was awash in blood! I saw the death sentences, which he signed in

Emma Korpa
GULAG survivor:
Children were not considered inmates, so they were buried in a civilian graveyard.

Ģirts Valdis Kristovskis
Member of the European Parliament:
Europe continues to ignore Soviet crimes, mass murders, while millions of the

Volodimir Sergiychuk
professor, University of Kyiv:
This is a sacred place for me. Because it is the resting place of the Famine victims, including my grandmother

Vladimir Karpov
former Soviet Colonel [of Military intelligence - GRU]:
Khrushchev was allowed to kill 7 or 8 thousand „enemies. He asked: Please increase my quota to 17 000!

Françoise Thom
professor of Modern History, Sorbonne
Stalin authorized children to be shot from the age of twelve!

Natalia Lebedeva
historian, Institute of General History, RAS, Moscow:
If a regime is criminal, then it acts criminally in all areas, including foreign affairs.

Boris Sokolov
professor, Moscow State Social University:
Nobody wants to admit that ones ancestors were simple criminals.

Viktor Suvorov
former Soviet Secret Agent:
A delegation of German Gestapo and SS came to the Soviet Union to learn how to build concentration camps.

George Watson
literary historian, Cambridge University:
Marx and Engels called Basks, Bretons, and Serbs - „racial trash, Voelkerabfall.

Nicolas Werth
historian, co-author of The Black book of Communism:
Yes, people were killed by bullet in the head. We know that usually they were killed by bunches of between one hundred and several hundreds every night.

Vladimir Bukovsky
former Soviet dissident:
Stalin exiled about a dozen of nations completely. Part and parcel. Chechens, Ingush, Kalmiks, Karachaevs, Crimean Tatars. A dozen of nations completely wiped out!

Pierre Rigoulot
historian, Institut dhistoire Sociale, Paris:
French Communist party say today that they were resistant well before June 1941, when Soviet Union was attacked. In fact, they were in fight with marshal Petens government more than the German.

Inese Vaidere
Member of the European Parliament:
The Soviet Union transferred a lot of ethnic Russians into the occupied Baltic countries. It was a clear violation of Geneva Convention.

Sergey Sluch
historian, Institute of Slavic Studies, RAS, Moscow:
According to all norms of international law, the decision of the Soviet Government to invade Poland [in 1939] was a clear act of aggression.

Ari Vatanen
Member of the European Parliament:
My father lost four of his brothers in that war. Four! That was the price we paid that we did not have a democratic society next to us.

Alexander Guryanov
Memorial society, Moscow:
In the 1930s the technology of murder and executions was introduced. Every administrative region had a designated area where corpses were to be buried.

Michael Gahler
Member of the European Parliament:
There is a equal right for all the victims to see those who committed crimes to see them tried and sentenced.

Wojciech Roszkowski
Member of the European Parliament:
Russian identity has been shaped up by the sense of being part of a big empire.

Rita Papina
survivor of Soviet terror:
It is hard to speak about it. It is as if a scar was torn and is bleeding again.

André Brie
Member of the European Parliament :
Russia as a successor of the Soviet Union is obliged to carry out a real investigation of the crimes and the character of their system.

Christopher Beazley
historian, Member of the European Parliament:
The agreement, which Stalin made with the West affected the whole of Europe for

Freedom Square a year after the violence

Several of the old buildings where burnt, and a couple of hundred people killed in 2014, but the peace is coming back....

Лавра и памятник афганцам

Киев, апрель 2008

Orange revolution of 2004 in Kiev, Ukraine

Or the first Maidan with orange ribbons.

Станция киевского метрополитена Днепр Киев. Мост метро.

Дата съемки 21.09.2017 г.
Мост Метро́ — первый метромост через Днепр в Киеве. Автор проекта и главный инженер — Георгий Борисович Фукс. Открыт 5 ноября 1965 года. Двухъярусное сооружение для движения метропоездов и автотранспорта.