Ukraine opened a terror investigation yesterday into a mine blast that killed an American medic from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)’s monitoring team in the country’s rebel-held east.The OSCE suffered its first casualty in the three-year war in Europe’s backyard after an armoured vehicle hit a landmine on Sunday in the Russian-backed separatist fiefdom of Luhansk.The medic was on a monitoring mission patrol near the village of Pryshybin, controlled by pro-Russian separatists.An unidentified US medic was killed and two others, German and Czech nationals, were wounded as they travelled on a patrol monitoring the conflict that …read more
Source: Gulf times
