Gruesome Atrocities By Ukraine Armed Forces Emerge

Gruesome Atrocities By Ukraine Armed Forces Emerge

By Countercurrents

Countercurrents.org

Italian journalist torn to pieces, grenade attack on truck with wounded, ambulance fired, air strike, residential areas shelled, about 40 dead

Andrey Mironov (L) and Andrea Rocchelli (R)

Ukraine armed power is carrying on atrocities as reports by news agencies including AP said. The atrocities include air strike and shelling on residential areas. Reports of death of Italian journalist Andrea Rocchelli and former dissident Andrey Mironov have emerged. The grisly murder torn into pieces the journalist's body.

There were also reports of grenade attack on a truck carrying wounded. An ambulance with injured was also fired on.

The fighting in Donetsk is continuing around the airport and the railway station.

A Donetsk datelined AP report by Peter Leonard and Nataliya said:

The Kiev government launched an air strike on militants who occupied a major airport in the eastern capital of Donetsk .

In Donetsk , a city of one million, sustained artillery and gun fire was heard from the airport. Fighter jets and military helicopters were seen flying overhead, and dense black smoke rose in the air.

An Associated Press journalist saw several vehicles full of dozens of heavily armed men arrive to the area adjacent to the airport. Half an hour later, several flatbed trucks full of reinforcements came in.

The military operation has caused civilian deaths and destroyed property — angering many eastern residents — while still failing to crush the rebellion.

In the eastern region, less than 20 percent of the polling stations were open.

Other media reports said:

Witnesses have revealed new details of the killings in Ukraine of an Italian reporter and his Russian interpreter, Andrey Mironov – who was also a veteran human rights activist, a journalist and a Soviet dissident.

Mironov's body was in a morgue in Slavyansk and might soon delivered to Russia .

Mironov, 60, was killed along with Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli, 30, by mortar fire on Saturday near the village of Andreevka , a couple of kilometers from Slavyansk , eastern Ukraine . French journalist, William Roguelon was wounded in the attack.

The journalists were in the area to report on fighting between local self-defense squads and Kiev forces amid an ongoing military operation launched weeks ago by the coup-imposed government to suppress protesters who seek more autonomy.

Following the tragedy, Kiev put the blame for the deaths of the journalists on “terrorists,” as the new Ukrainian authorities refer to opposition activists.

Nikolay Goshovsky, a senior official from Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office said that a criminal case on “aggravated killing” was opened, reported UNN agency. He also stated that the journalists got killed as armed forces “responded” to actions of self-defense rather than during Kiev 's “anti-terrorist” operation.

Witnesses' accounts, including Roguelon, claim the opposite and accuse the military of the armed assault.

Evgeny, a taxi driver who also survived the attack, told RT's video agency Ruptly that the journalists left his car, “raised their hands and started taking photos when machine gun shooting began.”

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