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Russia continues to support terrorists, Ukrainian officials say

Russia continues to support terrorists, Ukrainian officials say

12 June 2014

The Russian Federation is offering “humanitarian aid” to Ukraine’s “militiamen,” acknowledged Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on June 11. “We are offering aid in those ways that are at our disposal to support the militiamen who are concerned about how their children, mothers and wives are handling these hardships,” he said, as reported by the Itar-Tass news agency. He added that Kyiv refused to cooperate in Russia’s humanitarian aid effort.

 

Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry rejected Rusisa’s claim that the aid is of a humanitarian nature. “The trick of so-called humanitarian aid is nothing else than a veiled attempt to assist hired Russian terrorists,” the ministry said.

 

Enough evidence exists that Ukrainian MP Oleksandr Yefremov (head of the pro-Yanukovych Party of Regions faction) is responsible for supporting terrorist activity in his native Luhansk and should be deprived of his parliamentary mandate and prosecuted, Luhansk State Oblast Administration Chair Iryna Verigina wrote on her Facebook on June 11. (The state oblast administration is the Presidential Administration’s representative organ in the region). “I saw the speech of (Ukrainian MP Serhiy) Gorokhov in the Russian parliament in which he called for concrete action by Russia against Ukraine. Yefremov was sitting in the presidium. That’s direct evidence of the given MPs to terrorism in the east,” she wrote of the latest proof.

 

Other MPs with the Party of Regions of Ukraine and Communist Party are tacitly financing terrorist groups in Luhansk and Siverodonetsk, a city in the oblast, she wrote, and they should also be criminally prosecuted. “Thousands of Luhansk residents are demanding this,” Verigina wrote. “Enough of robbing and destroying the Luhansk region!”

 

Denis Pushilin, the self-declared people’s governor of the Donetsk People’s Republic, was photographed in Moscow at a June 11 meeting with Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of the Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia. On May 2, the Procurator General of Ukraine announced a search for Pushilin for his arrest.

 

Terrorists raided the offices of a large agricultural firm in the Donetsk Oblast on June 11, destroying automobiles and stealing office equipment. Among the firm’s owners is Serhiy Taruta, a Donetsk Oblast magnate and head of the Donetsk Oblast State Administration, which is the Presidential Administration’s representative organ in the region.

 

The OSCE announced its special monitoring mission in Luhansk stopped working on June 11 as a security measure in response to the tense situation, though their mission will continue. Meanwhile, eight OSCE observers (four in the Donetsk Oblast and four in the Luhansk Oblast) remain hostages, with no contact established.

 

Zenon Zawada: These news reports describe several disturbing events that indicate the Russian government has no intention to de-escalate the violence in Ukraine’s Donbas region and is cynically pressing forward with its hybrid war against Ukraine. The claim that the aid is humanitarian is particularly offensive.

 

Pushilin’s escape to Russia reveals that the Ukrainian government has little control over its border with Russia. It will be even more embarrassing if he were to return to Donetsk to lead the terrorists. As for Yefremov and Gorokhov, we can only conclude that they haven’t yet been deprived of their parliamentary mandates because authorities are still gathering evidence of their criminal activity.

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