Ukraine: Separatists Seize Bus With OSCE Monitors

[Catherina]

14. Those aren't mediators. They're NATO military officers on a scouting mission for Kiev and NATO

OSCE ?@OSCE 13h

1/4 Comms with military observers in Donetsk region lost.Team not OSCE monitors but sent by States under Vienna Doc on military transparency

https://twitter.com/OSCE/status/459747578297716736

OSCEVerified account ?@OSCE

2/4 All members of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission and OSCE/ODIHR election observers are safe and accounted for

https://twitter.com/OSCE/statuses/459747682819772416

OSCE ?@OSCE 13h

3/4 Military verification team - led by Germans – and composed of 8 members – 4 Germans, 1 Czech, 1 Danish, 1 Polish, 1 Swedish

https://twitter.com/OSCE/status/459747756631134208

OSCE ?@OSCE 13h

4/4 Military verification team sent following invitation from Ukraine under terms of Vienna Document 2011

https://twitter.com/OSCE/status/459748009329582080

This bus was also carrying 5 Ukrainian soldiers, in addition to the "military observers" from Germany, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Poland and Sweden. It was a mission led by Germany – but was expressly not operating under the terms of the OSCE mission to Ukraine. They are not part of the OSCE mission and are not "working for the Vienna-based Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)" as the article's author stated. They're in Ukraine, as a special team, at the invitation of the interim Coup-installed government in Kiev.


And at least one them, ole Johny Boy Christensen was rolling the streets of Ukraine since November 19 even though the Vienna 2011 cover didn't kick in until late March. They'll be released soon, minus their flash drives and other electronic equipment, in exchange for some people Kiev abducted but we never read about in the Western press. Kiev already received the names on the exchange list. Well, they'll be released unless Kiev decides it's more advantageous to milk all the propaganda they can out of this.

But"Mediators" LOL!





There's a lot more about this but what the hell. DU's no longer the place to rock the propaganda machine. The source of the article in the OP is Thomas Groves, a US reporter currently working for Reuters. The quote below applies:

"Indeed, in my four-plus decades in journalism, I have never seen a more thoroughly biased and misleading performance by the major U.S. news media. Even during the days of Ronald Reagan – when much of the government’s modern propaganda structure was created – there was more independence in major news outlets. There were media stampedes off the reality cliff during George H.W. Bush’s Persian Gulf War and George W. Bush’s Iraq War, both of which were marked by demonstrably false claims that were readily swallowed by the big U.S. news outlets.

But there is something utterly Orwellian in the current coverage of the Ukraine crisis, including accusing others of “propaganda” when their accounts – though surely not perfect – are much more honest and more accurate than what the U.S. press corps has been producing.

There’s also the added risk that this latest failure by the U.S. press corps is occurring on the border of Russia, a nuclear-armed state that – along with the United States – could exterminate all life on the planet. The biased U.S. news coverage is now feeding into political demands to send U.S. military aid to Ukraine’s coup regime.

The casualness of this propaganda – as it spreads across the U.S. media spectrum from Fox News to MSNBC, from the Washington Post to the New York Times – is not just wretched journalism but it is reckless malfeasance jeopardizing the lives of many Ukrainians and the future of the planet."

Robert Parry, Ukraine, Through the US Looking Glass, April 16, 2014

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/04/16-6