VIENNA (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 11th April, 2019) Russian Permanent Representative to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Alexander Lukashevich appealed on Thursday to the organization to respond to cases of arbitrary detention, torture and murder in Ukraine.
"The OSCE has to monitor thoroughly and respond meaningfully to all cases of arbitrary detention, torture and murder on the territory of Ukraine," Lukashevich said, addressing the OSCE Permanent Council.
He also noted that there were still no assessments of the alarming information about the "secret prisons" of the Ukrainian Security Service and about the Azov far-right nationalist battalion in Donbas.
According to Lukashevich, Kiev continues to ignore the recommendations of international organizations and the Council of Europe about the need to complete the investigation of high-profile crimes such as murders during Euromaidan protest actions in Kiev and the mass burning of people in the House of Trade Unions in Odessa in 2014.
From November 21, 2013 to February 22, 2014, over 100 people died in violent clashes between law enforcement officials and protesters in Kiev's Maidan Nezalezhnosti square. On May 2, 2014, radicals in Kiev chased anti-government protesters to the House of Trade Unions in Odessa and set the building on fire. Over 40 people were burned alive while more than 250 others got injured. A four-year inquiry into the Odessa massacre found no culprits.
