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Ukraine has banned Russian passenger plane to land at airports in Donetsk and Kharkiv, according to the Russian air transport authority Rosaviation, reports Interfax. Russian passenger plane with Donetsk and Kharkiv as the final destination may no longer access to the Ukrainian airspace.

The operations started around 4.30 today in the morning and were is still at 20.00 a lot of shooting in Slavyansk. We may se the after a couple of days how its end. Were is also reports of at least 8 to 9 losses.

According an AP intevju with the Russian FSB commander Strelkov (Aftonbladet) in Slavyansk were they attacked in the morning today around 4.30 by around 20 Ukrainan helicopters (Strelkov intervju). http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/kolumnister/wolfganghansson/article18810270.ab and Swedish TV news 1...

map of action area in eastern Ukraine.

http://lifenews.ru/news/132493

Some chat about the Ukraine shooting.

https://twitter.com/edgarsrinkevics/sta ... 8396483584

Pictures with a shooting Hind is strange. The flames from the rockets seams strange. And it shoot against a Ka-52? on ground. It most be pictures taken in Russia. The information from the eastern Ukraine must be taken under consideration. But it is shore they use some kind of surface to air missiles...

Ukraine have today started an offensive against the pro-Russian separatists (the Aftonbladets words). Two helicopters have been shot down of SAM used by the separatists (Aftonbladet). One pilot dead and one pilot caught.

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article18812608.ab

Picture of the rest of the helicopter on Kramatorsk air base. According to a source were the pilot burned!!

twitter.com/Pabriks

The decision is considered unusual because the government typically only allow foreign military planes to pass on a few flyovers or in and out of a specific airport. The condition can be interpreted as support for Sweden's closest neighbors to the east who are in the EU. NATO's AWACS planes (Airborn...

Swedish government decided during wednesday that NATO may use swedish airspace during a time specified period.
The decision is particulary NATO E-3A:s passing for Poland missions, and is provoced by Ukraine crisis.

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article18807072.ab

A Russian Tu-214R Special Mission Aircraft has been operating quite close to Finland’s airspace for the last days. A Tupolev Tu-214SR, used as a communication relay aircraft often dispatched by the Russian Air Force to accompany Putin’s presidential aircraft or other Moscow’s VIPs on their trips, ha...

US F-15C from Baltic scrambled on a Il-20 on friday. Could be the same as the Swedish QRA RF-93610.

F-15C have tested the Ämäri air base, Estonia. NATO plan to use it with several aircraft.

https://twitter.com/oplatsen

Pentagon says Russian jets violate Ukrainan airspace. The US says Russian military aircraft have entered Ukrainan airspace several times in the past 24 hours, amid rising tension in the east of the country. http://www.bbc.com/news/27167187 Visible today in Swedish news several Su-25 flying, maybee a...

Remember that a lot of incidents in area are manipulated.

Around week ago a helicopter was reported shut down in area. But shown pictures were taken from a helicopter shut down in Syria.

Ukrainan helicopter shot down by a RPG. The pilot OK.

http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/heliko ... ilitarbas/

Were is certainly several versions of these, as several other incidents in area.