Deaf-blind media react only to the death of OSCE staff
Alexey Blyuminov, political commentator, Kyiv-Lugansk
Despite the ceasefire announced several times, the fighting in Donbass does not even think of ending. Fighting continues in the area of the Donetsk airport, as well as constant shelling of the DPR capital from Peski and Avdeevka, where the positions of Ukrainian troops are located. Every day brings news of the death of people. However, if the death of local civilians for the media, including Western ones, is, no matter how blasphemous, but still a statistic that is not noticed, then the death of an employee of the Red Cross mission in the West could no longer be ignored.
On October 2, during the shelling of Donetsk, one of the shells hit the Red Cross office, killing an employee of the organization, 38-year-old Swiss citizen Laurent Etienne du Pasquier.
According to the OSCE website, from 17:15 to 18:00 local time on October 2, observers heard explosions in the north of Donetsk with an interval of 15 minutes. At around 18:00 p.m., mission personnel heard five volleys of gunfire in the north of the city, with short intervals between them. The report emphasizes that these were presumably Uragan missiles.
Kyiv, according to tradition, blamed the militias for everything, but it is the Ukrainian TV viewer who believes (albeit less and less) that the “terrorists” are shooting at themselves. Respected international organizations such as the OSCE and the International Red Cross need evidence, which neither Klimkin nor Sergeev could provide them with.
Where the rocket that killed the Swiss came from is quite eloquently demonstrated by the following fact. Its flight range is up to 40 km, that is, they fired not from Donetsk, but at Donetsk, and without discerning where the shell would hit.
The EU also drew attention to the shelling. As Soren Liborius, head of the information department of the EU Delegation to Russia, said, European authorities are concerned that “the truce is being undermined.” And OSCE Chairman Didier Burkhalter said that he was shocked by the latest facts of death as a result of shelling in Donetsk.
And here we have to go back to the very beginning. It turns out that in order for international structures to pay attention to the ongoing mass shelling of the same Donetsk, it was necessary to wait for the death of a foreign citizen. So, his death is far from the first and not the only fact of this kind over the past month. Suffice it to recall the “bloody” Day of Knowledge on October 1, organized by Ukrainian artillerymen for students of one of the Donetsk schools. Four people died then. They are hitting not only schools, but also minibuses and public transport stops.
In such conditions, the question of who else must die so that the OSCE not only expresses concern, but gives a proper political assessment of what is happening, is no longer even rhetorical, but prophetic.
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