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Ukrainian court detains kidnapped LPR observer in the JCCC
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.Using the traditional Russian spelling in the spelling of Gorlovka (instead of Horlivka) because references to the town in passed posts in rantburg.com also use the Russian spelling. [REGNUM] The Severodonetsk city court of the Luhansk region, occupied by the Ukrainian security forces, arrested the representative of the Luhansk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) Andrei Kosyak, who had previously been abducted while performing his duties as an observer. The verdict on October 18 was announced by the press service of the prosecutor's office of the "Luhansk region". "During the pre-trial investigation, it was established that since July 2021, the suspect has been serving as an overseer officer of the representative office of the Special Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire", which is part of the so-called "People's Militia of the LPR." The detention was carried out by the SBU counterintelligence together with units of the armed forces of Ukraine," the Ukrainian prosecutor's office reports. As reported by IA REGNUM , on October 13, in the area of the village of Zolote, during the work agreed with Kiev at the withdrawal area in Donbass, Ukrainian militants seized the representative of Luhansk in the JCCC Andrei Kosyak. Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) is a formal organization of Russian, Ukrainian and now Lugansk officers charged with detecting ceasefire violations in place since the February, 2015 truce. More details from korrespondent.net: The OSCE is being held hostage. What's happening in Donetsk [Korrespondent] OSCE mission blocked in Donetsk In the occupied Donetsk and Gorlovka, they do not let the staff of the OSCE Monitoring Mission out of the hotels and demand the release of the militant who was detained by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The OSCE monitoring mission stopped its work in the occupied areas of Donetsk region. All due to the fact that the mission staff were actually blocked in the hotel by representatives of the so-called “DPR”. They are seeking the release of the militant detained by the Ukrainian military. But so far Donbass remains without observers. How did it start? On October 13, 2021, the Ukrainian delegation to the Minsk Trilateral Contact Group announced the arrest of a fighter of the so-called “LPR”, a citizen of the Russian Federation Andrei Kosyak, in the Donbas. The operational group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine detained him in the area of the Zolote checkpoint (Luhansk region) for "gross provocation." Contrary to the agreements, Kosyak conducted reconnaissance, posing as a representative of the JCCC, the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Ceasefire Issues and Stabilization of the Line of Delimitation of the Parties. "At about 10:45 am, a group of armed men with armbands from the JCCC, under the guise of carrying out demining work, was conducting reconnaissance of the positions left by the Armed Forces of Ukraine," the Ukrainian delegation told the TKG. They added that on October 13, the Ukrainian side really provided security guarantees to the participants in the equipment of the site for the opening of the Zolote checkpoint from the side of the temporarily occupied territories. However, such work -- in particular on demining -- had to be carried out "with a clear indication of the routes of movement and determination of the maximum point of advancement towards the positions of the Armed Forces." Instead, the Ukrainian military noticed an unknown person at the site, where, according to the agreed conditions, no one should have been, so a decision was made to detain him. Who was detained? The detainee turned out to be a citizen of the Russian Federation Andrey Valentinovich Kosyak, born in 1978. They confiscated a Makarov pistol with two magazines, as well as documents issued by the "LPR" and an ID of the JCCC. Ukrainian law enforcement agencies suspect him of committing a grave crime in 2010 (premeditated murder, article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). According to Novosti Donbass, he was born in Alchevsk, was a citizen of Ukraine, but subsequently received a Russian passport. In the "LPR" and in Russia, Kosyak's detention was used as a pretext to accuse Ukraine of violating the Minsk agreements. The SBU established that Kosyak fired at the positions of the Ukrainian military in Popasna and Zolote from a mortar, he was informed of suspicion of committing a crime under Part 2 of Art. 260 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (creation of paramilitary or armed formations not provided for by law). The actions of the militants On October 15, several dozen young people held a protest action in the center of occupied Donetsk near the Park Inn hotel, where representatives of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission live. Young people came to the hotel with posters, the inscriptions on which contained calls for the release of Kosyak. In fact, the OSCE representatives were blocked in the hotel The participants of the meeting set up 22 tents (with heat and power supply), as well as dry closets in front of the hotel where the members of the mission live. The mission acknowledged that the blockade prevented any movement of patrols into and out of the premises on 15 and 16 October. On October 17, similar actions were resorted to in Gorlovka. On Sunday evening, the SMM observed that the vehicle gates of the mission's forward patrol base in Gorlovka had been locked with a chain and padlock. South of the gate, a car with blue "DPR" signs blocked the exit. The SMM also saw several members of the armed formations standing next to the vehicle. Reaction The OSCE has already called for the removal of any obstacles to the freedom of movement of the mission's observers. Serhiy Garmash, a representative of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group, said that the militants actually took the observers hostage. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Oleg Nikolenko called the actions of the Russian Federation inadmissible regarding obstruction of the OSCE mission in ORDLO. "Blocking and pressure on observers of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Donetsk is an element of the ongoing efforts of the Russian Federation to destroy the Minsk agreements and stir up the armed conflict," Nikolenko stressed. He also recalled that in September the Russian Federation closed the OSCE observer mission at the Russian checkpoints across the state border of Gukovo and Donetsk, "to make it impossible to observe and hide from the international community illegal supplies of weapons, ammunition and mercenaries from Russia to Ukraine." Also from korrespondent.net: OSCE Mission to Gorlovka unblocked - media [Korrespondent] The tent camp with the "protesters" near the hotel, where the members of the OSCE mission are accommodated, has been dismantled. The work of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in occupied Gorlovka has been unblocked. The tents with "picketers" outside the hotel where the mission is located have been dismantled. Local mass media write about it . The tent city near the Rodina hotel was set up a few days earlier. "Patriotic residents of Gorlovka", as the mayor of the city Ivan Prikhodko called them, blocked the exits from the building. Patriotic because Prikhodko prolly paid them. The "picketers" demanded the release by the Ukrainian side of the detained Russian citizen Andrey Kosyak. Later it became known that the representatives of the "protest action" discussed with the members of the OSCE monitoring mission the stop of the picket, since the mission must "ensure the safety of the workers of the filtering station and record the shelling." Gorlovka is a city in Donetsk People's Republic which has been under near constant artillery fire since 2015. Via News-Front Russian language news outlet: Ukrainian militants opened mortar fire on LPR [NewsFrontInfo] The representative office of the Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reports that the Kiev security forces fired mortars at the village of Sokolniki in the Slavyanoserbsky region. Slavyanoserbsky region is seven kilometers due west of Schastye, on the Severdonetskiy River. "At 20:30 from the area of the settlement of the Crimean VFU, the settlement of Sokolniki was fired upon with the use of 82 mm mortars," the message says. Posted by: badanov 2021-10-19 |
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