Sunday, May 4, 2014

Washington n'a aucune preuve de l’implication de Moscou dans la tragédie à Odessa (diplomate américain)

 Washington n'a pas de preuve de l’implication de la Russie dans les événements tragiques qui se sont produits à Odessa le 2 mai dernier, a déclaré l’Ambassadeur américain en Ukraine Geoffrey R. Pyatt dans une interview accordée à la chaîne CNN.

Il a exprimé l'espoir qu'une enquête rapide et impartiale sera menée suite à cette tragédie.

Selon Pyatt, l’inaction de la police municipale à Odessa aurait pu faire sortir la situation du contrôle.


Pyatt a également souligné le rôle crucial qu’a joué la Russie dans la libération des observateurs militaires étrangers de l'Organisation pour la sécurité et la coopération en Europe (OSCE), détenus dans l’Est de l’Ukraine.

Selon le diplomate, cela prouve que Moscou a une influence sur la situation et ce pays peut jouer un rôle constructif dans la régularisation de la situation en Ukraine.
http://french.ruvr.ru/2014_05_04/Washington-na-aucune-preuve-de-l-implication-de-Moscou-dans-la-tragedie-a-Odessa-diplomate-americain-1388/

4/5/14
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  • US diplomat: there is no evidence of Russia's involvement in Odessa massacre...

There is no evidence of Russia's involvement in the Friday massacre in Odessa, U.S. Ambassador in Kiev, Geoffrey Pyatt had to admit Sunday as he spoke by telephone on a CNN program.
Friday, May 2, football fans who had come to Odessa from the northeast city of Kharkov as well as the combatants from two far-right extremist organizations, the Right Sector and the Maidan Self-Defense Force clashed with the supporters of federalization of Ukraine in downtown Odessa. They set fire to the regional House of the Trade Unions and a tent camp near it where activists had been gathering signatures in favor of a referendum for federalization of Ukraine and for granting Russian the status of a second state language.
As a result of the tragic events, 46 people died and more than 200 survivors had to turn for medical aid.
  • “We don't have evidence of the Russian role in […] the tragedy that transpired on Friday,” Pyatt said answering the anchor Candy Crowley’s downright aggressive question on whether he believed that Russia was behind “this bloodiest day thus far in this back-and-forth [the course of the Ukrainian crisis - Itar-Tass]”.
  • Pyatt mentioned the blunt accusations towards Russia that the prime minister of the incumbent Kiev government, Arseny Yatsenyuk, had made in Odessa earlier in the day.
“And this is something that we hope an impartial and systematic investigation will be able to get to the bottom of very quickly,” he said.
Pyatt indicated that he could not understand clearly why the Friday massacre had taken place.
“ […] having spent some time in Odessa just three weeks ago and spoken with a broad range of political and civil society leaders, there's nothing that I heard and saw while I was in that city which would explain what transpired on Friday night,” Pyatt indicated.
“At this point, the whole country is trying to figure out what happened, how to pull together, and how to make sure that those who are trying to divide the country will not be successful,” he said.
  • “Most disturbingly, there seems to be evidence in social media that some of the police in Odessa may have been complicit in allowing the violence to explode out of control way it did,” Pyatt said, rushing to praise Yatsenyuk’s subsequent actions, as “he's already brought some major changes in the security leadership there in Odessa […]”.
  • He described Ukraine as “a society which is facing extraordinary threats and division.”
“But the dominant mood in the country is, how do we end this violence and how do we pull the country together again?” Pyatt claimed.
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/730425
4/5/14

2 comments :

  1. Pro-Russian militants just outside Sloviansk are retreating amid attacks by Ukrainian troops, reports say....

    Government forces have taken a TV tower in the suburbs and rebels were pulling back deeper into the city, the Russian Interfax news agency said.

    Almost continuous heavy gunfire could be heard, apparently closer to the centre than in recent days, a Reuters reporter said.

    At least two separatist armoured vehicles were seen in retreat.

    Unconfirmed reports said at least eight Ukrainian soldiers had been injured. Four ambulances were seen near the area and a number of rebels were said to have fled, Reuters reported........http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27280814
    5/5/14

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  2. VIDEO: Civilians in Ukraine ready for civil war...

    Citizens of the Ukrainian city of Lugansk, 30 kilometres from the Russian border, are learning how to use Kalashnikovs in case the looming threat of civil war becomes reality.

    Pro-Russian fervour is sweeping eastern Ukraine and has intensified following the deaths of 24 people in the southern port of Odessa on Friday, many of them pro-Russian militants who died in a building fire.

    Pro-Russian militants seized control of Lugansk's security agency a month ago and the separatist leader in the city of half a million people has told local military commanders to swear allegiance to their self-styled "Lugansk Republic" or get out.

    Ukraine's government accuses Russia of wanting to invade the country and break it up.

    In Lugansk, many young men are ready and willing to take up arms.

    One separatist told France 24, "I love my fatherland... I want to fight to defend it. To the very end. If I'm killed, well, that's fate."

    (FRANCE 24 with AFP)
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