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Ukraine investigates Sloviansk shooting that killed three
Ukraine will now probe the shooting at the checkpoint near the town of Sloviansk that claimed three lives and has escalated the tension with Russia.
Zee Media Bureau
Kiev: Ukraine will now probe the shooting at the checkpoint near the town of Sloviansk that claimed three lives and has escalated the tension with Russia.
The checkpoint was being guarded by pro-Russian separatists and Russia has expressed “outrage” over the incident.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry issued a statement after the attack and said that some of the attackers were also killed and wounded. However, no other details about the attackers were revealed. Ukraine`s Security Service also called the attack a "cynical provocation" staged from "the outside."
Russia`s Foreign Ministry issued a statement blaming militant Ukrainian nationalists and Russian state television stations aired pictures of supposed proof of their involvement in the attack that left at least three people dead. The Ukrainian Security Service, however, said the attack was staged by provocateurs from outside the country. And the presented evidence — particularly a pristine business card said to have been left behind by the attackers — was met with widespread ridicule in Ukraine, where it soon had its own Twitter hashtag.
Russia, which annexed the Crimean Peninsula last month, has tens of thousands of troops along its border with Ukraine. Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, originally said the troops were there for military exercises, but Putin`s spokesman on Saturday acknowledged that some were there because of instability in eastern Ukraine.
The self-proclaimed mayor of Slovyansk appealed to Putin on Sunday to send in peacekeeping troops to protect Russian speakers from Ukrainian nationalists.
(With Agency Inputs)
Kiev: Ukraine will now probe the shooting at the checkpoint near the town of Sloviansk that claimed three lives and has escalated the tension with Russia.
The checkpoint was being guarded by pro-Russian separatists and Russia has expressed “outrage” over the incident.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry issued a statement after the attack and said that some of the attackers were also killed and wounded. However, no other details about the attackers were revealed. Ukraine`s Security Service also called the attack a "cynical provocation" staged from "the outside."
Russia`s Foreign Ministry issued a statement blaming militant Ukrainian nationalists and Russian state television stations aired pictures of supposed proof of their involvement in the attack that left at least three people dead. The Ukrainian Security Service, however, said the attack was staged by provocateurs from outside the country. And the presented evidence — particularly a pristine business card said to have been left behind by the attackers — was met with widespread ridicule in Ukraine, where it soon had its own Twitter hashtag.
Russia, which annexed the Crimean Peninsula last month, has tens of thousands of troops along its border with Ukraine. Russian officials, including President Vladimir Putin, originally said the troops were there for military exercises, but Putin`s spokesman on Saturday acknowledged that some were there because of instability in eastern Ukraine.
The self-proclaimed mayor of Slovyansk appealed to Putin on Sunday to send in peacekeeping troops to protect Russian speakers from Ukrainian nationalists.
(With Agency Inputs)