Ukraine massacre - UEFA EURO 2012
Thousands of innocent animals - poisoned, shot and burned - alive!
This was the first article published in the Russian news which brought the ball to roll: Ukraine uses mobile crematoriums to destroy homeless dogs - 11/11/2010
In Russia and Ukraine, homeless animals are destroyed with the use of curare-like paralyzing poisons. Ditiline is forbidden in Ukraine, but the drug is widely used anyway. Ukrainian animal rights activists no longer seek understanding and support from the government and say that they are ready to take extreme measures: they threaten to disrupt Euro 2012 football championship in the country.
Russian animal rights activists wage their own war for homeless four-legged creatures. On February 2, 2010, 500 people filed a written protest against the return of useless and barbaric extermination of homeless animals.
Yuri Luzhkov, Moscow's former mayor, stated in May of 2008 that he was supporting humane policies towards the regulation of the number of homeless animals.
However, reality proved that the verbal statement entailed no action: animals would be captured in the streets and sent to unfinished shelters, where they would die because of poor housing conditions.
The same year, Luzhkov's deputy Pavel Biryukov offered to replace the program of sterilization of homeless animals to their extermination in municipal shelters. The black list included quarantined and sterilized dogs. Animal rights activists said that such a change in the law would only legalize animal slaughter.
In Russia, homeless dogs are also destroyed with curare-like drugs such as ditiline and its derivatives. Curare-like paralyzing poisons are banned in the whole civilized world, and their use is categorized as brutal animal abuse.
Many in Russia believe that a large number of homeless animals is a result of uncontrollable breeding of purebred dogs and cats and the absence of propaganda to sterilize homeless pets. In addition, taking homeless pets from dog pounds is not considered a traditional practice in Russia.
There is direct connection between the cultural and moral level of the society and the attention that it pays to issues of protection of animals. The culture of eating dog meat has been prospering in Moscow lately. A journalistic investigation conducted by one of Russian TV channels revealed a whole chain of restaurants serving dog meat in the south-west of Moscow.
The attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church to four-legged creatures is terrible too. On October 27, 2007, a priest of Russia's iconic Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius ordered to pack over 30 cats in sacks and take them to a landfill where they were bulldozed.
During the festival of balloons held in Moscow's Tushino in 2008, several lambs were publicly slaughtered for meat. The festival was conducted with the blessing of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
In 2007, a priest of the Temple of St. Matrona in Moscow's center ordered a security guard to beat a puppy who ran onto the territory of the church. The guard broke the puppy's spine.
Atrocious attitude to animals prospers in Ukraine too. Ukrainian animal rights activists won the support of UEFA after their numerous attempts to reach the national authorities had been left without attention. In Ukraine, homeless animals are destroyed barbarically. Dog catchers use special syringe guns to kill homeless pets. The poison that they used is called ditiline - a drug that paralyzes respiratory muscles.
"Animals stay conscience during the process. Ditiline literally breaks their lungs into pieces during several hours, and dogs die in unimaginable pains. Animals are being destroyed in public while other people including children are watching," an activist said.
"It is possible to solve the problem with homeless animals, but it will take time. Destroying animals is not a way out, because other homeless dogs and cats breed very fast. To reduce their growing number, one should eliminate their sources of food - garbage containers in the streets that do not get emptied as often as they should. If animals have no food sources, their number will be cut considerably in a natural way.
In Ukraine's Lisichansk, local authorities purchased a mobile crematorium for 198,000 hryvnas. It looks like a field kitchen with a chimney. The crematorium is operated by a driver, an operator and a catcher "armed" with a syringe gun. They paralyze animals and throw them into the container. As soon as they collect 40 kilos, they burn the paralyzed dogs and cats while they are still alive.
Last year, the Ukrainian president, the prime minister and the opposition leader received dozens of letters from foreign animal rights activities, who urged them to immediately stop the uncontrollable and brutal extermination of homeless animals. Activists from other countries sent many similar messages to UEFA headquarters because Ukraine is hosting Euro 2012 football championship.
Europe is ready to boycott Euro 2012 in Ukraine. Activists, with famous people among them, are ready to organize meetings of protest near Ukrainian embassies in EU countries if nothing changes for the better.
Director of Euro 2012, Martin Cullen, told Ukrainian officials that he condemned barbaric methods of solving the problem with homeless pets. The official stated that the government of Ukraine should take the problem under control because the brutal methods used against the animals contradict to European norms. Source - original
In Russia and Ukraine, homeless animals are destroyed with the use of curare-like paralyzing poisons. Ditiline is forbidden in Ukraine, but the drug is widely used anyway. Ukrainian animal rights activists no longer seek understanding and support from the government and say that they are ready to take extreme measures: they threaten to disrupt Euro 2012 football championship in the country.
Russian animal rights activists wage their own war for homeless four-legged creatures. On February 2, 2010, 500 people filed a written protest against the return of useless and barbaric extermination of homeless animals.
Yuri Luzhkov, Moscow's former mayor, stated in May of 2008 that he was supporting humane policies towards the regulation of the number of homeless animals.
However, reality proved that the verbal statement entailed no action: animals would be captured in the streets and sent to unfinished shelters, where they would die because of poor housing conditions.
The same year, Luzhkov's deputy Pavel Biryukov offered to replace the program of sterilization of homeless animals to their extermination in municipal shelters. The black list included quarantined and sterilized dogs. Animal rights activists said that such a change in the law would only legalize animal slaughter.
In Russia, homeless dogs are also destroyed with curare-like drugs such as ditiline and its derivatives. Curare-like paralyzing poisons are banned in the whole civilized world, and their use is categorized as brutal animal abuse.
Many in Russia believe that a large number of homeless animals is a result of uncontrollable breeding of purebred dogs and cats and the absence of propaganda to sterilize homeless pets. In addition, taking homeless pets from dog pounds is not considered a traditional practice in Russia.
There is direct connection between the cultural and moral level of the society and the attention that it pays to issues of protection of animals. The culture of eating dog meat has been prospering in Moscow lately. A journalistic investigation conducted by one of Russian TV channels revealed a whole chain of restaurants serving dog meat in the south-west of Moscow.
The attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church to four-legged creatures is terrible too. On October 27, 2007, a priest of Russia's iconic Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius ordered to pack over 30 cats in sacks and take them to a landfill where they were bulldozed.
During the festival of balloons held in Moscow's Tushino in 2008, several lambs were publicly slaughtered for meat. The festival was conducted with the blessing of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
In 2007, a priest of the Temple of St. Matrona in Moscow's center ordered a security guard to beat a puppy who ran onto the territory of the church. The guard broke the puppy's spine.
Atrocious attitude to animals prospers in Ukraine too. Ukrainian animal rights activists won the support of UEFA after their numerous attempts to reach the national authorities had been left without attention. In Ukraine, homeless animals are destroyed barbarically. Dog catchers use special syringe guns to kill homeless pets. The poison that they used is called ditiline - a drug that paralyzes respiratory muscles.
"Animals stay conscience during the process. Ditiline literally breaks their lungs into pieces during several hours, and dogs die in unimaginable pains. Animals are being destroyed in public while other people including children are watching," an activist said.
"It is possible to solve the problem with homeless animals, but it will take time. Destroying animals is not a way out, because other homeless dogs and cats breed very fast. To reduce their growing number, one should eliminate their sources of food - garbage containers in the streets that do not get emptied as often as they should. If animals have no food sources, their number will be cut considerably in a natural way.
In Ukraine's Lisichansk, local authorities purchased a mobile crematorium for 198,000 hryvnas. It looks like a field kitchen with a chimney. The crematorium is operated by a driver, an operator and a catcher "armed" with a syringe gun. They paralyze animals and throw them into the container. As soon as they collect 40 kilos, they burn the paralyzed dogs and cats while they are still alive.
Last year, the Ukrainian president, the prime minister and the opposition leader received dozens of letters from foreign animal rights activities, who urged them to immediately stop the uncontrollable and brutal extermination of homeless animals. Activists from other countries sent many similar messages to UEFA headquarters because Ukraine is hosting Euro 2012 football championship.
Europe is ready to boycott Euro 2012 in Ukraine. Activists, with famous people among them, are ready to organize meetings of protest near Ukrainian embassies in EU countries if nothing changes for the better.
Director of Euro 2012, Martin Cullen, told Ukrainian officials that he condemned barbaric methods of solving the problem with homeless pets. The official stated that the government of Ukraine should take the problem under control because the brutal methods used against the animals contradict to European norms. Source - original
As Kiev prepares to host the European Football Championship in 2012, animal rights groups claim attempts to beautify the country are coming at the expense of homeless animals.
The people of Ukraine are in despair. Country government and the mayors, systematically killing stray animals in order to let the country shine for all tourists and television companies for the UEFA Euro 2012 - European football championship. Dogs and cats are poisoned or shot. Mobile crematoriums moved around and pick up paralyzed animals - and burn them alive. They're just rubbish to be removed from the streets.
Atrocious attitude to animals prospers in Ukraine. Ukrainian animal rights activists won the support of UEFA after their numerous attempts to reach the national authorities had been left without attention.
In Ukraine, homeless animals are destroyed barbarically. Dog catchers use special syringe guns to kill homeless pets.
The poison that they used is called ditiline - a drug that paralyzes respiratory muscles. In Ukraine's Lisichansk, local authorities purchased a mobile crematorium for 198,000 hryvnas ((20,500 euros - imagine the number of animals who could have been spayed and neutered for the same money) .
It looks like a field kitchen with a chimney. The crematorium is operated by a driver, an operator and a catcher "armed" with a syringe gun. They paralyze animals and throw them into the burning furnace. As soon as they collect 40 kilos, they burn the paralyzed dogs and cats while they are still alive.
The city Lysychansk (eastern Ukraine) proudly announced in the following newspaper:
http://donbass.ua/news/region/2010/01/19/po-lisichansku-ezdit-peredvizhnoi-krematorii.html
Atrocious attitude to animals prospers in Ukraine. Ukrainian animal rights activists won the support of UEFA after their numerous attempts to reach the national authorities had been left without attention.
In Ukraine, homeless animals are destroyed barbarically. Dog catchers use special syringe guns to kill homeless pets.
The poison that they used is called ditiline - a drug that paralyzes respiratory muscles. In Ukraine's Lisichansk, local authorities purchased a mobile crematorium for 198,000 hryvnas ((20,500 euros - imagine the number of animals who could have been spayed and neutered for the same money) .
It looks like a field kitchen with a chimney. The crematorium is operated by a driver, an operator and a catcher "armed" with a syringe gun. They paralyze animals and throw them into the burning furnace. As soon as they collect 40 kilos, they burn the paralyzed dogs and cats while they are still alive.
The city Lysychansk (eastern Ukraine) proudly announced in the following newspaper:
http://donbass.ua/news/region/2010/01/19/po-lisichansku-ezdit-peredvizhnoi-krematorii.html
In 2010, 2011 and 2012, the Ukrainian president, the prime minister and the opposition leader received thousands of letters from foreign animal rights activities and people, who urged them to immediately stop the uncontrollable and brutal extermination of homeless animals. Activists from other countries sent many similar messages to UEFA headquarters because of Ukraine is hosting Euro 2012 football championship.
Europe is ready to boycott Euro 2012 in Ukraine. Activists, with famous people among them, are ready to organize meetings of protest near Ukrainian embassies in EU countries if nothing changes for the better.
Director of Euro 2012, Martin Cullen, told Ukrainian officials that he condemned barbaric methods of solving the problem with homeless pets. The official stated that the government of Ukraine should take the problem under control because the brutal methods used against the animals contradict to European norms.
The animals are usually starving and will eat what they find - they suffer very badly from the poison, they get cramps and pain and the process can take an hour before they die. The animals that do not get burned to death, poisoned or thrown into mass graves are placed in wooden boxes or substandard municipal dog enclosures while waiting for being killed.
Ukranian animal rights activists have been protesting this practice since 2010, and operations director of the UEFA, Martin Kallen, has publicly said that he does not approve of any methods of animal control that constitute animaly cruelty. However, nothing has been done to investigate the burnings.
UEFA president Michel Platini visited the Ukraine and said he was pleased with Ukraine's progress.
Animal Activists in Ukraine are furious that nothing is being done about these mass animal killings. Foreign fans are trying to mobilize and boycott Ukraine's involvement - Activists are desperately trying to save the stray dogs and cats of the Ukraine.
This picture shows a large number of bags stacked and sealed. All but one of which shows the head of a dog unable to release the rest of his body from the bag. Packages are filled with dogs and cats ready to be placed alive in a crematorium. The savage massacre is taking place in Lysychansk (Ukraine), in order to rid the city of their presence during the European Football Championship in 2012. UKRAINE - Dog being injected with venom poison to paralyze the respiratory muscles of the animal before being incinerated alive in a mobile crematorium (900 degrees heat).
Paralyzed and still conscious and alive - dogs and cats, puppies and kittens, are discarded blindly into the mobile furnace.
The mobile team of drivers and dog catchers are armed with a gun to shoot strays and the municipality also lends the mobile crematorium to other cities and districts of the region. The captured animals are thrown alive into the oven to 900 degrees Celsius. According to locals, the dogs and cats are paralyzed by drugs and burned alive!
Europe is ready to boycott Euro 2012 in Ukraine. Activists, with famous people among them, are ready to organize meetings of protest near Ukrainian embassies in EU countries if nothing changes for the better.
Director of Euro 2012, Martin Cullen, told Ukrainian officials that he condemned barbaric methods of solving the problem with homeless pets. The official stated that the government of Ukraine should take the problem under control because the brutal methods used against the animals contradict to European norms.
The animals are usually starving and will eat what they find - they suffer very badly from the poison, they get cramps and pain and the process can take an hour before they die. The animals that do not get burned to death, poisoned or thrown into mass graves are placed in wooden boxes or substandard municipal dog enclosures while waiting for being killed.
Ukranian animal rights activists have been protesting this practice since 2010, and operations director of the UEFA, Martin Kallen, has publicly said that he does not approve of any methods of animal control that constitute animaly cruelty. However, nothing has been done to investigate the burnings.
UEFA president Michel Platini visited the Ukraine and said he was pleased with Ukraine's progress.
Animal Activists in Ukraine are furious that nothing is being done about these mass animal killings. Foreign fans are trying to mobilize and boycott Ukraine's involvement - Activists are desperately trying to save the stray dogs and cats of the Ukraine.
This picture shows a large number of bags stacked and sealed. All but one of which shows the head of a dog unable to release the rest of his body from the bag. Packages are filled with dogs and cats ready to be placed alive in a crematorium. The savage massacre is taking place in Lysychansk (Ukraine), in order to rid the city of their presence during the European Football Championship in 2012. UKRAINE - Dog being injected with venom poison to paralyze the respiratory muscles of the animal before being incinerated alive in a mobile crematorium (900 degrees heat).
Paralyzed and still conscious and alive - dogs and cats, puppies and kittens, are discarded blindly into the mobile furnace.
The mobile team of drivers and dog catchers are armed with a gun to shoot strays and the municipality also lends the mobile crematorium to other cities and districts of the region. The captured animals are thrown alive into the oven to 900 degrees Celsius. According to locals, the dogs and cats are paralyzed by drugs and burned alive!
Ukraine, Kharkov, August 2011, People protesting against the dog and cat slaughtering in Ukraine. TV reportage, which also shows dogs that are packed in cramped wooden cages.
Poisoning and purging of the abandoned companion animals - began to increase significantly in 2010 - The toxins used may be rat poison, pesticides, etc. - all these toxins cause terrible suffering to the animals before they die - many European citizens who do not like stray animals and do not want them in their local environment poison the animals regularly across Europe.
EURO 2012 - Dog and cats being injected with poison to paralyze the respiratory muscles of the animal before being incinerated alive in a mobile crematorium (900 degrees heat).
Ukraine's stray dogs burnt on altar of Euro 2012 - Ukraine has been demonstrating its desire not to bite the dust while hosting Euro 2012 by burning stray dogs in a mobile incinerator.
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Excuse to Kill Stray Dogs
EURO 2012 and how the event is being used as an excuse to seek additional budget funds to increase the killing of stray animals.
There is evidence to suggest that inhumane methods have been put to use in order to clean the streets of stray dogs including poison, shooting and even burning the dogs alive. However, the authorities claim to not be involved in this abuse.
EURO 2012 and how the event is being used as an excuse to seek additional budget funds to increase the killing of stray animals.
- In 2003 the World Bank held an international conference in Kyiv.
- In 2005 the Eurovision Song contest was held in Kyiv.
- In 2012 UEFA will hold its football tournament in Ukraine.
There is evidence to suggest that inhumane methods have been put to use in order to clean the streets of stray dogs including poison, shooting and even burning the dogs alive. However, the authorities claim to not be involved in this abuse.
Activists call for boycott of EURO 2012 over Ukraine dog killings
KSPA's Statement Regarding the Environment Minister's Appeal to City Majors Kyiv Society for the Protection of Animals (KSPA) makes the following statement regarding the call of Environment minister M.Zlochevsky to the majors of ukrainain cities on November 17, 2011.
The Law for the Protection of Animals is in force in Ukraine since 2006. It prohibits killing the animals by inhumane methods such as "painful injections, poisoning, overheating".
Ukrainian municipalities nevertheless widely apply all these illegal methods for last years, see our video reports about mass poisoning, injections and mobile crematoriums.
In this regard, the call of Environment minister M.Zlochevsky is significantly less binding for the majors than the Law currently in force. It gives them no new reasons to start observing that Law.
Moreover, all the uncertainties noticed by Associated Press themself make no impression there is any real roadmap besides the appeal. Experience sais, promised legal and other changes can be dragged out for years.
KSPA therefore in no way shares the opinion that "this is a fantastic victory for Ukraine, its citizens and its animals".
The Society has over 12 years experiense of dealing with ukrainian authorities and, based on that, continues to accredit their achievements only by their deeds, rather than by just their words. Source
The Law for the Protection of Animals is in force in Ukraine since 2006. It prohibits killing the animals by inhumane methods such as "painful injections, poisoning, overheating".
Ukrainian municipalities nevertheless widely apply all these illegal methods for last years, see our video reports about mass poisoning, injections and mobile crematoriums.
In this regard, the call of Environment minister M.Zlochevsky is significantly less binding for the majors than the Law currently in force. It gives them no new reasons to start observing that Law.
Moreover, all the uncertainties noticed by Associated Press themself make no impression there is any real roadmap besides the appeal. Experience sais, promised legal and other changes can be dragged out for years.
KSPA therefore in no way shares the opinion that "this is a fantastic victory for Ukraine, its citizens and its animals".
The Society has over 12 years experiense of dealing with ukrainian authorities and, based on that, continues to accredit their achievements only by their deeds, rather than by just their words. Source
2012, January - Mass grave of dogs discovered in Gorlovka near Donetsk - Translation of the explanation of the video:
Ukraine 06-01-2012 - The animal rights activists - in Ukraine, also known as volunteers - are scared to get downstairs to the pit, because they are afraid of what they might see there. You can hear the voice of Arnold the volunteer who has also filmed.
This says that the volunteers feel that there is certainly no longer a dog is alive. The dog catcher had drugged the dogs, thrown them alive into the pit and then covered them with concrete. We also see that one dog has injuries to his chest. In another still a syringe inserted in the body, as can be seen clearly from the edge of the pit. Unfortunately, there are rumors that supposedly a mysterious epidemic of rabies should have broken out, but this has not been proved by tests. And this alleged epidemic is also the reason for the mass killings. Nobody here believes that, because there would be more humane methods for this course!
Ukraine 06-01-2012 - The animal rights activists - in Ukraine, also known as volunteers - are scared to get downstairs to the pit, because they are afraid of what they might see there. You can hear the voice of Arnold the volunteer who has also filmed.
This says that the volunteers feel that there is certainly no longer a dog is alive. The dog catcher had drugged the dogs, thrown them alive into the pit and then covered them with concrete. We also see that one dog has injuries to his chest. In another still a syringe inserted in the body, as can be seen clearly from the edge of the pit. Unfortunately, there are rumors that supposedly a mysterious epidemic of rabies should have broken out, but this has not been proved by tests. And this alleged epidemic is also the reason for the mass killings. Nobody here believes that, because there would be more humane methods for this course!
While the Ukrainian Government (and UEFA) wants the world to believe that the killings of stray animals as part of their preparations for the European Championship has stopped, the following video recorded in Donetsk March 23, 2012 tells otherwise!