"Three
years ago, a terrible tragedy happened in Odessa, when Ukrainian radical
nationalists herded defenseless people into the Trade Unions Building and then
burned them alive", Putin said.
SOCHI,
May 2. /TASS/. The global community is obliged never to forget such
tragedies as the 2014 pogrom in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, Russian President
Vladimir Putin stated at a press conference following his talks with German
Chancellor Angela Merkel.
"As
you may remember, three years ago, a terrible tragedy happened in Odessa, when
Ukrainian radical nationalists herded defenseless people into the Trade Unions
Building and then burned them alive. Those responsible have not been
established yet. The global community has no right to forget this so that such
events do not happen again in the future," Putin said.
The
Russian president also mentioned another tragic event that occurred in Ukraine,
when an observer from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) was killed in a
landmine blast. Putin stressed that such events hampered peacemaking efforts
and fanned tensions.
"This
is why there is a need for an impartial investigation to find out what
happened," Putin added.
On
April 23, an OSCE SMM vehicle drove over a mine near the village of Prishib in
the Lugansk People’s Republic. As a result, an American paramedic was killed
and another two observers, citizens of the Czech Republic and Germany, suffered
wounds. According to the Lugansk People's Republic security sources, "a
Ukrainian secret subversive group was active" in the Prishib area.
Source: ITAR-TASS 03-05-2017
Source: ITAR-TASS 03-05-2017
