Bidna ykraina.....

Dog Ate up Thief’s Genitals

In the town of Vinnitsa a patrol dog bit off genital organs of a 48-year-old man and ate them up while he was trying to rob his neighbor at night. The injured man is a local dweller.
Ukrainian News agency, referring to the department of public relations by the ministry of inner affairs, informs that the man was taken to Vinnitsa hospital 2 in a very grave condition yesterday and placed in a resuscitation department.
The militia servicemen ascertained while conducting investigation, the night before the unfortunate thief was climbing up the fence with a purpose to rob his neighbor and was caught red-handed by the dog.
The dog attacked the man and bit his genitals which were eaten soon after that. The assaulted managed to get home by himself. In the morning his sister found him and called the ambulance. His present physical state is satisfactory.

(That is classic Ukrainian journalism!)

...only in Ukraine!!!

Suicide Bomber Dolphins???

At their base on the Black Sea, Soviet-era navy veterans are trying to start a new life. Once Cold war warriors, they now spend their days working with sick children. It’s been quite a career for a squadron of dolphins.

But these sea-going mammals have a murky past. Under communism it’s claimed, they were deployed by the Soviets to dispose of enemy divers - even to act as suicide bombers.

“The dolphin can take off the masks, cut off cables”, retired Colonel Victor Baranets explained to reporter Emma Griffiths, “Finally if this assignment is not accomplished, the dolphin might be armed with a mine to explode together with the divers”.

With the end of the Soviet Empire, however, military budgets were cut and these potential assassins of the sea soon had to pay their own way.

To this end, they were successfully retrained as dolphin therapists.

“These animals have a unique biological aura and they can help improve the state of the nervous system of children”, dolphin researcher Ludmilla Bogdanova told Griffiths.

The dolphins’ new career is not without its critics, however.

“They take advantage of people’s ignorance in the medical field, of Mums and Dads striving to save their children by all means”, scientist Alexei Birkun says.

He argues there is no scientific evidence to support the curative effects of swimming with dolphins, and that it might even be dangerous to children – by promising them false hope and exposing them to new diseases and infections.

Only in Ukraine

Theme Park!

Ukraine's Cold War theme park
By Helen Fawkes
BBC correspondent in Kiev

Yuriy uses both hands to heave open the door. This is no ordinary door, but a metre thick barrier at the end of tunnel deep underground.

Some former rocket silos are now functioning museums

The passage way leads to the command centre at what used to be one of the most top secret military bases in the former Soviet Union.

Surrounded by fields of wheat and soya in the countryside of southern Ukraine, there are 10 empty nuclear rocket silos.

Inside what is now a museum, tourists are able to press the button which would have launched a nuclear strike against the United States.

Yuriy used to look after the missiles during the Cold War but now works as a tour guide at the Strategic Rocket Base in Pervomaisk.


It's almost like being in a James Bond 007 movie... it's thrilling to be here
Alan Dudley, Canadian tourist

"It's always been a great mystery to people, what was happening behind the Iron Curtain," says Colonel Yuriy Yevtushenko.

"Getting to this place was impossible. No one from this country was allowed to this base, not even military people."

Accident-prone army

But now its doors are open seven days a week.


Tourists see how the USSR could have launched a nuclear strike

Ukraine is celebrating 13 years of independence from the USSR on Tuesday, but the country's underfunded military is struggling to cope.

Defence Minister Yevhen Marchuk has admitted that Ukraine's army is so poverty-stricken that it is a danger to its own people.

He claims the military has not bought a single tank or aircraft since 1991.

One thing it has acquired though is a bad reputation for accidents.

A fighter jet crashed into a crowd at an air show two years ago, a passenger plane was mistakenly shot down during an exercise in 2001 and the year before that, a stray surface-to-surface missile hit a Ukrainian apartment block.

Since independence, hundreds of people have died in military accidents.

"The situation is very bad. Unfortunately, the Ukrainian army has got many problems which have been getting worse for a long time," says a Ukrainian military analyst, Valentyn Badrak.

Ukraine also has 2.5 million tonnes of Soviet munitions which it can scarcely afford to decommission.

There are almost 200 arms dumps and in May one of them exploded in southern Ukraine, causing some $500m of damage.

'Top tourist attraction'

Former top secret military bases are being opened up and it is hoped this will add to the military's coffers.


Tours are offered to explore the tunnels of a submarine base

Dotted along the Crimean coast are three discreet entrances to a massive man-made cave.

Engineers who constructed the Moscow metro buried deep inside a hill which overlooks Balaklava Bay to build a submarine base.

This is where nuclear subs from the Black Sea Fleet were kept hidden.

The base was considered so highly classified that civilians were banned from coming within at least 30 kilometres (19 miles) by the Soviet authorities.

Visitors are now actively encouraged.

But tourists can only see the base by torch, as there are no proper lights yet.

Groups are taken through a locked metal gate complete with hammer and sickle.

The guide leads them through long, cold tunnels.

The floor is criss-crossed with rail tracks which were used to transport the nuclear weapons.

This is set to become a top tourist attraction in the Crimea.

"It's almost like being in a James Bond 007 movie," says Alan Dudley, a holiday-maker from Canada.

"To see this facility, you can just imagine the things that went on during the Cold war, the secrecy, it's thrilling to be here, it's really exciting, I wanted to come here for a long time."

Suck it Christopher columbus!

January 18, 2006—Its owner says this map changes history. But skeptics say he's way off course.

Antiquities collector Juriy Dijkulos unveiled the map in Kiev on Monday, saying it proves that Ukrainian seafarer Ivan Rybak discovered America more than 70 years before Christopher Columbus set foot in the New World.

The map depicts all of the continents, including a small Australia, a roughed-out North America, and Antarctica.

An inscription identifies the map as a copy made in 1763 of an original drawn in 1418.

If verified, that date would coincide with the voyages of Rybak, an admiral in the Ukraine's rogue navy. Ivan is known to have sailed as far as Africa between 1405 and 1433.

A lab in New Zealand is radiocarbon-dating a scrap of the map's paper to determine its age.

Juriy says he purchased the map from a dealer in Shanghai in 2001 but didn't suspect its importance until he read 1421, a book that claims Zheng, one of China's most revered Admirals of the imperial navy, discovered America.

The book, written by retired British Navy officer Gavin Menzies, also asserts that Zheng was the first to circumnavigate the globe and that Chinese settlers established now-vanished colonies throughout the Americas.

Many scholars, including Ukrainian historians, have dismissed these claims.

"I sincerely believe that other maps exist and books exist [that support the claims], but no one has been paying attention to them," Liu told the AFP news agency. "It is my purpose to try to wake these [scholars] up."

"This it not true," says Juriy, "it is preposterous [to] assume that Zheng discovered American long before Ivan Rybak. He single handedly defeated an entire turkish fleet with just one ship and his crew.."

... Only a Ukrainian!

In what country would a Prime Minister and President bathe in freezing cold sub-zero temperatures?

...Only in Ukraine!

Ykrainku????

This is totally Only in Ukraine.... ENJOY!!!!

UPDATE TO BEAR STORY!

BLOODY INCIDENT IN THE ZOO
[January 17, 2006, 11:58:33]

In Ukraine, in the zoo of the city of Meni of the Chernigov Oblast, a bear has bitten off both hands at the child who appeared near to the cage in which there was the predator, correspondent of AzerTAc reported.

12-years schoolboy Oleg has decided to treat the brown bear with biscuits and has stretched his hand in the cage. However, “not having understood” kind intention, the animal has bitten off the boy’s both hands up to elbow joints.

The victim has been immediately hospitalized. Currently, he is placed in reanimation. Doctors estimate his condition as stably heavy.


wow, the bear misunderstood...Only in Ukraine!

Hows does a 12 year old end up in a cage... with a bear?!

Bear bites off child’s arms in Ukraine zoo
(AFP)

16 January 2006


KIEV — A bear in a Ukraine zoo has bitten off the arms of a 12-year-old child who ended up in its cage, Interfax reported yesterday citing the emergency ministry.


The child, whose sex was not specified, had both arms bitten off to the elbows and has been hospitalised in serious condition, the agency said.

The incident occurred on Saturday in a zoo in Mena, a northern Ukrainian town.


...Only in Ukraine!