OSCE SMM reports of threats coming from militants to open fire if the monitors put their vehicles near the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, that`s according to the mission`s report of April 18, published on Tuesday.
”The SMM received threats from armed men. While in ”DPR”-controlled Donetsk city, a ”DPR” member approached an SMM patrol, claiming that he had seen SMM vehicles near a Ukrainian Armed Forces excavator and said he would open fire at the monitors if this were to happen again,” reads the report.
Following this, the militant left the scene.
In a separate incident, armed ”LPR” members in ”LPR”-controlled Parkhomenko (29km east of Luhansk) threatened to detain SMM monitors.
It is noted that armed ”LPR” members stopped the SMM at a checkpoint near the entrance to ”LPR”-controlled Parkhomenko border crossing point and asked for the SMM patrol plan.
”When the SMM refused to show the patrol plan, the ”LPR” members told the SMM to depart and threatened to detain the SMM if it diverted from the main road upon departure,” the OSCE SMM said. ”The SMM notified the Joint Center for Coordination and Control, which said that the border area is not under its jurisdiction and advised the SMM to leave.”
20 April 2016
This is your usual Russian yellow cowardice.
pathetic.