{"id":14015,"date":"2014-06-03T08:50:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T08:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14015"},"modified":"2014-06-03T08:50:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T08:50:21","slug":"pro-us-kiev-indiscriminately-shells-residential-lugansk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14015","title":{"rendered":"Pro-US Kiev indiscriminately shells residential Lugansk"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14016\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14016\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/churkin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14016\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/churkin.jpg\" alt=\"Vitaly Churkin\" width=\"298\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/churkin.jpg 298w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/churkin-70x40.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 85vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vitaly Churkin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The humanitarian situation in Ukraine needs to be addressed immediately, without the usual \u201ctheoretical exercises&#8221; from the UN Security Council\u2019s \u201cusual suspects,&#8221; ambassador Vitaly Churkin said after a closed-door meeting on a Russian draft resolution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe draft is not politicized and is of a purely humanitarian nature,\u201d Churkin told reporters in New York, stressing that the document is aimed at \u201calleviating human suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery day civilians get killed, among them women and children,\u201d Churkin said. \u201cUkrainian military and paramilitary forces impede the peaceful population, leaving besieged cities or sending their children to safe places. Buses of children are turned back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A swift reaction is absolutely necessary, Churkin said, as Kiev continues its full scale military operation in southeastern Ukraine with \u201cheavy and indiscriminate shelling of residential areas\u201d using both artillery and aviation.<\/p>\n<p>Just on Tuesday alone, at least eight\u00a0civilians were killed in a Ukrainian air raid on a local administrative building in Lugansk, the aftermath of which was shown in numerous horrific videos posted online.<\/p>\n<p>Yet authorities and pro-Kiev media deny the incident, even claiming that self-defense forces were behind the attack on their own headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Churkin said the new draft demands \u201can immediate cessation of hostilities, urges parties to commit themselves to sustainable ceasefire, and calls for the establishment by the parties of humanitarian corridors in order to allow the civilian population to leave safely and to ensure humanitarian assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>British Ambassador to the UN Mark Lyall Grant and his French counterpart, Gerard Araud,\u00a0dismissed the call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must be clear that the crisis in Ukraine is a political security crisis. It&#8217;s not a humanitarian crisis,\u201d Lyall Grant told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Source: RT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The humanitarian situation in Ukraine needs to be addressed immediately, without the usual \u201ctheoretical exercises&#8221; from the UN Security Council\u2019s \u201cusual suspects,&#8221; ambassador Vitaly Churkin said after a closed-door meeting on a Russian draft resolution. \u201cThe draft is not politicized and is of a purely humanitarian nature,\u201d Churkin told reporters in New York, stressing that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14015\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pro-US Kiev indiscriminately shells residential Lugansk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[8996,7637,8995,6266],"class_list":["post-14015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-humanitarian-crisis","tag-kiev","tag-lugansk","tag-vitaly-churkin"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/churkin.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14017,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14015\/revisions\/14017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}