Crimea’s prosecutor says Kyiv kills Ukrainian people instead of protecting
Asked about a possibility of forced migrants to assert their rights in Ukraine, the prosecutor replied with emotion: “Look what is going on in Ukraine! What is the law there and who are the authorities protecting? A bunch of people who gathered together and dictate their conditions to the others and God knows what they are about?”
“Which law regulates murder of ordinary citizens?” the Crimea Inform quoted Poklonskaya as saying. “Who has given them a right to murder? The law does not work in Ukraine, there is none there.”
“The people who came here and are now enjoying protection of Russian law and Russia testify to this fact,” she said.
Lavrov criticizes Kyiv’s demands regarding south-eastern self-defense forces
The Russian Foreign Minister on Tuesday criticized Kyiv’s demands that militiamen in Ukraine’s south-eastern regions capitulate. “We see everything thanks to the correspondents who risk their lives and the solemn words of (Ukrainian) President Poroshenko that the Ukrainian army was ordered not to shell cities, settlements and residential quarters, not to bomb civilians,” he added that he knew which reflected reality. Russia’s top diplomat, Sergei Lavrov added, “What is happening is totally different”.
“We see killed people, deformed bodies, destroyed apartments, houses. This is dismal.” “Statements from the Ukrainian authorities that a truce is only possible if militiamen accept the peace plan, that is, capitulate, and hope to be pardoned, discourage us and remove any opportunities for reaching that truce,” he said.
Ukraine agreed, In line with a four-party agreement, to an unconditional ceasefire, Lavrov said on Tuesday after a meeting with Slovenian President Borut Pahor and Foreign Minister, Karl Erjavec. “The four-party statement by the foreign ministers of the Russian Federation, France, Germany and Ukraine (of July 2) clearly calls for an immediate, unconditional, bilateral ceasefire,” Lavrov said.
“That is what Ukraine signed.” “There are no conditions like the militia’s capitulation. Ukraine agreed to an unconditional ceasefire,” he noted. “We need to throw aside everything to immediately stop the use of force,” Lavrov emphasized. “We are convinced Slovenia understands our position and the fact that a ceasefire is a priority task.”
The example of Crimea, a region that did not recognize the authorities imposed during a coup in Ukraine in February and seceded from the country to join Russia in March, apparently inspired the residents of Ukraine’s south-east who supported federalization. The residents started massive protests and formed militias.
Since mid-April, Kyiv has been conducting a military operation against federalization supporters in Ukraine’s war-torn south-eastern regions, which involves armored vehicles, heavy artillery and attack aviation, reports Itar-Tass.