US urges Russia to 'immediately' observe Ukraine ceasefire

[brassmonkey]

Washington (AFP) - The United States called on Russia Sunday to "immediately" observe the ceasefire in Ukraine, accusing combined Russian and separatist forces of targeting international monitors.

"We call on Russia and the separatist forces it backs to immediately observe the ceasefire, withdraw all heavy weapons, and allow full and unfettered access to the OSCE monitors," the State Department said.

State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the United States was closely monitoring growing violence in eastern Ukraine and the failure of the combined Russian and separatist forces to abide by a ceasefire agreed to two years ago in Minsk.

"We condemn Friday's targeting of OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) monitors and the seizure of a SMM unmanned aerial vehicle by combined-Russian separatist forces," Toner said, referring to the civilian observers with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

"It is imperative that these forces halt their attacks on civilian infrastructure, including the Donetsk water filtration station."

The US statement comes amid an upsurge of violence with Ukraine reporting on Saturday that 16 of its soldiers were wounded over the previous 24 hours.

The latest casualties came despite a truce agreed on Monday by Russia and Ukraine. The nearly three-year-long conflict has claimed more than 10,000 lives.

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[JohnnyClips - BANNED FOR LIFE]

We should not care what happens in that part of the world

I don't give two shits

[Bladewire]

Today

[Sarn]

Originally Posted by Bladewire

Today

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[brassmonkey]

Originally Posted by Sarn

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wtf is that suppose to mean??

[brandonstills]

US needs to stop stirring up shit in other parts of the world. Ukraine doesn't want the US interfering and neither does Russia.

[Sarn]

Originally Posted by brassmonkey

wtf is that suppose to mean??

WHO ARE THE CRIMEAN TATARS?
The historic Muslim community makes up 13 percent of the Crimean population.

The Tatars traditionally espouse the Sunni branch of Islam and have historically enjoyed a close relationship with Turkey and other Muslim peoples in the nearby Balkans, Caucasus and Central Asia. The Tatar language is also part of the Turkic family, sharing traits with Turkish, Azerbaijani and Turkmen?spoken in Turkmenistan and parts of Syria.

Crimea has been home to a vibrant Tatar community for over 1,000 years, during which the peninsula has been governed by many rulers. Crimean Tatars have lived as part of the Russian Empire, as a vassal state to the Ottoman Empire, as a province of the Soviet Union and as an autonomous republic of Ukraine.
Who Are the Crimean Tatars?


in 1944 Stalin deported Crimean Tatars to protect them from punishment for Nazi war crimes

Enters Ukraine. Ukraine is a Western territory of Russia, temporally occupied by the West. It?s a colony of the US with a multiethnic society where Russians are the majority, but the US wants to grind into a monoethnic society with a pure, ?Ukrainian? identity. Everyone who doesn?t want to speak the Ukrainian language is being burned alive, like in the Odessa Massacre, or shot, or bombed by NATO. Everyone in Ukraine is supposed to become ?Ukrainian? which means ?anti-Russian? and a follower of the Bandera ultra-nationalist ideology.

Everyone, that is, for the notable exception of so-called ?Crimean Tatars? who are allowed by the US and EU to use their own language, their own national identity, their own religious extremist organizations like Hizb ut-Tahrir, Tablighi Jamaat and other terrorist organization, that are legal in Ukraine, but considered terror organizations in Russia.
Tell Eurovision in 1944 Stalin deported Crimean Tatars to protect them from punishment for Nazi war crimes, by Scott | The Vineyard of the Saker