Again War in Ukraine

• 01.18.2015, 01:46
•  Europe

Several days ago, just after the end of the New Year, the military actions in the south-eastern Ukraine resumed. The new stage of the armed confrontation was marked by a shooting on a passenger bus in the city Volnovakha in the Donetsk region, near the Ukrainian checkpoint. As a result 12 people were killed – 10 of them died just on the spot, and the rest of them in the hospital.

As in the case of the Malaysian Boeing, the Russian side accused Ukraine. Nevertheless, according to the existing facts, the culprits more likely are again the separatists, who, it seems, have again confused the civilian bus with a military one. The proponents of the self-proclaimed republic, however, claim, that they have nothing to do with the incident, as if the Ukrainian checkpoints are out of the zone of their artillery actions. 

The US State Department delivered an announcement with accusations against the militia. The spokesman of the State Department Maria Harf declared that the American Authorities condemn the attack of the militia on the airport of Donetsk and the shooting on the bus near Volnovakhi, informs Interfax.

The president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko compared the incident in Volnovakhi with the terrorist attack in Paris. Today, as it is expected, he will sign a decree on the new wave of mobilization. The UN Security Council is demanding an impartial investigation which will bring to the justice the perpetrators of this awful act...