OSCE observers in Donbass stubbornly ignore Kyiv’s war crimes – media
Moscow - Kyiv, September 25 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - The OSCE monitoring mission in Donbass is fundamentally not interested in and does not investigate the executions of civilians by Ukrainian security forces, special correspondents Alexander Kots and Dmitry Steshin write in today's KP. On the contrary, the OSCE members are trying to remove responsibility for war crimes from the Ukrainian side.
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These European citizens in white bulletproof vests, as a rule, do not answer questions from journalists, Steshin and Kots write. When Shevchenko Boulevard was shelled with mortars in broad daylight in Donetsk, OSCE officers did not go to the site. The shelling of Semyonovka with phosphorus cluster mines also did not interest the Europeans, nor did shells with “ready-made submunitions” in the form of 5-7 thousand steel arrows. In the story of the murder of RIA photojournalist Andrei Stenin, OSCE officials were worried about only one aspect - to drop charges from the Ukrainian side of kidnapping and detaining the journalist.
“Wherever possible, in the border areas and near border crossings - Izvarino, Marinovka, Uspenka, there are not dozens, but hundreds of shot cars with the remains of refugees on the roads! – journalists write. – There are thousands of witnesses who saw that it was the Ukrainian army that shot at the refugees! There were dozens of survivors from these cars! But has anyone heard from the Council of Europe even a word about these most obvious and indisputable military crimes of Kyiv? No".
“At this historical period, the humanitarian tasks of monitoring the EU are slightly at odds with universal human norms and the main versions are in force: “they were themselves”, “we didn’t see it, so it didn’t happen,” summarize the authors of the text. – It is pointless to call on ordinary participants in monitoring missions to their conscience, and even more so to their superiors. You need to do everything yourself, and then present it to the blind and deaf “world community.” It’s pointless to wait for him to be “interested.”
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