OSCE did not understand Poroshenko’s decision to end the truce unilaterally (Alexei Pushkov) -[“Pilots made mistakes”]

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) did not understand Petro Poroshenko’s decision to unilaterally end the ceasefire in southeast Ukraine, Alexei Pushkov, the head of the Russian State Duma Committee for International Affairs, said in interview with the Russia 24 TV news channel on Friday.


The OSCE was absolutely bewildered by the Ukrainian president’s decision and expressed full misunderstanding of Poroshenko’s actions.
“Despite the fact that Kiev is constantly portraying itself as a victim of some non-existent intervention or aggression, Ukraine is still a country that was the first to resume the military hostilities,” Pushkov stressed.

“Sacrificial motives” were constantly present in a speech by Ukrainian delegation at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly in Baku.

“They constantly appealed to Europe and trans-Atlantic opinion, saying they were victims of a Russian aggression,” Pushkov explained.
But Kiev is far from being a victim. “Kiev is an active participant in an operation against armed men but also against civilians,” Pushkov said.

• The OSCE, Germany, France and many other European countries did not perceive the unilateral end of truce.

The truth about southeast Ukraine is starting to leak into the West largely thanks to the Internet, Pushkov said.
http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/739107
4/7/14
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• Ukrainian military commit war crimes...

 

The Ukrainian military have stepped up their operations in the south-east of the country. They carry out air strikes and use Smerch multiple rocket launchers equipped with cluster ammunition although earlier, the Ukrainian army refrained from using them. As a result, the casualty figure among civilians is sharply growing.

At a time when, the Kiev authorities hold talks with Moscow, Berlin and Paris on the necessity for working out a long-term ceasefire in the south-east, the army has launched an offensive. Attacks are being carried out not only on the check points of the self-defence forces. The army is carrying out carpet bombing on peaceful settlements. Earlier, people hid in basements to save their lives from bullets and shrapnel. But there is no safe place for them now when the Ukrainian military uses cluster ammunition and rocket launchers. On Wednesday, they destroyed an entire street in the village of Luganskaya. Dozens of people were killed under the debris. A few days ago, there were houses but now there are only up to two-meter deep shell holes and fragments of bombs. The identification marks have remained on many fragments, and they help to identify the bombs by watching photos and video reports, says Colonel of the Russian Air Force Sergei Reznichenko.

“These metallic fragments help to definitely conclude that they are pieces of an S-25 air-to-ground missile launched from an aircraft. The missile passes through the house and penetrates deep into the basement and explodes. Its crater effect is very powerful and the missile destroys the entire building, Colonel Reznichenko said.

The heads of the Ukrainian army could not suppress the fact that the air force launched strikes on a peaceful settlement in the outskirts of Lugansk. At first, the army said that war planes did not fly over this area, while the artillery launched attacks on some other side, and the military were stick to President Poroshenko’s instructions not to fire at residential areas. However, later it admitted that the air force carried out attacks. “Pilots made mistakes,” army spokesman Igor Mosiichuk said........................Read more: http://indian.ruvr.ru/2014_07_04/Ukrainian-military-commit-war-crimes-3998/
4/7/14
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