The Grad firing of a regular bus near Volnovakha, Ukraine, is officially recognized
as an act of terrorism: 12 dead and 18 wounded. On Sunday, January 18, a
solidarity march can be held at Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Kiev, because of the
murder of Ukrainian civilians at the firing of the bus.
However, the analysis
of pictures shows that it was not a fire from a Grad system, as Kiev asserts. There are no traces of a blast wave in the bus. Even
a few windows remained intact and the slopes were not broken. There are no
traces of piercing the left side with glass shards. Yet the right side was
densely dotted with round holes. There is a suspicion that it is an act of
terrorism but on the part of Ukraine . Judging by the nature of damages,
the bus was hit by one or more directional fragmentation mines laid along the
road. Andrei Koshkin, an expert of the Military Political
Scientists Association, agreed to comment on the situation in an interview to Pravda.Ru.
"Now the both
parties suggest their versions of the attack on the civilian bus.
Representatives of voluntary military forces claim that as to an artillery
strike their nearest artillery
systems are out of range, while Kiev
right away began to disseminate information that it was done by members of
volunteer corps. New circumstances of the incident are coming to light, say,
there was no artillery strike and people were shot with small arms. A question
of the beneficiary arises. I'm far from the idea that members of volunteer
corps staged the shooting of civilians by their raiding force to present it as
a political farce and declare that the government violates the terms of the
truce," Andrei Koshkin says.
As the expert stated,
the OSCE recorded more than 150 violations of the truce by the fire from both
directions. Yesterday alone there were 66 gun battles. "I assume that it
is the fault of subunits known as members of punitive squads that do not come
under the command of Kiev, such as the Azov and Dnepr
battalions, which are ready to
worsen the situation at the border between voluntary military forces and
Ukrainian regular forces, and such style is typical to them."
Why doesn't UN condemn mass killings in Ukraine?
As Andrei Koshkin
noted, there remains no doubt that Ukraine has been preparing its armed forces
all the while for a serious intrusion into the territory of the south-east.
During the truce, artillery systems and other sophisticated weaponry were
supplied, now 4 waves of mobilization have been announced to call 220,000
people to active service in the south-east. As the expert emphasized, incidents
like this one are necessary to justify such measures.
The correspondent of
Pravda.Ru asked the expert why the UN Security Council that condemned the
shooting of the bus did not condemn murders in the territory under control of
voluntary military forces.
"It's a typical
tendency during the entire civil ware. All fire attacks on the civilian
population are hardly recorded by the OSCE and are practically ignored by the UN. We can observe an extreme
selectivity in favour of current Kiev authorities, who are supported and
supervised by the USA. Regretfully, we can suppose that the tendency will
continue until serious and fundamental changes in the governmental structure of
Ukraine," Andrei Koshkin says.
Pravda.Ru notes that
Russia urged the OSCE to investigate the tragedy. But there is a suspicion that
the case will be hushed up like the Boeing case.
"Yes, we know
the worth of declarations to investigate everything by the example of the
Odessa tragedy, Maidan snipers, and firings of civilian districts with
prohibited weapons. We all heard such declarations, but there are no effective
results. We even know a story when journalists named those people who probably
shot down the Boeing. But they were not even interrogated. Foreign mass media
said there were no grounds to discuss such news hook in mass media abroad. We
can see a prominent tendency of suppression and selectivity in favour of
current Kiev authorities, who act with the support of the European Union and
the USA. All that is directly or indirectly stacked against Russia,"
Koshkin concluded.
Pravda.Ru
Translation provided
by TNC Freelancer Group
Source:
English Pravda 20-01-2015
