Ukraine's acting president and parliament speaker, Oleksandr Turchynov, has ordered that the Interior Ministry immediately detain all those responsible for the deaths and injuries in the eastern city of Donetsk on March 13.
“The entire world has seen footage of this terrible massacre. The
utmost cynicism of all this is that the blood of Ukrainian citizens who
attended a rally in support of our country’s unity was spilled in their
own home city. This is the true face of the Cossack separatists who went
sent there and who triggered the violence. The lives of the people that
they supposedly gathered to defend are not important to them and their
masters in the Kremlin. Every Ukrainian must realize that,” Turchynov
said in a statement published on his Web site.
He told the police chiefs in Donetsk region to make sure that “such tragedies never occur again.”
“I am issuing an urgent instruction to immediately investigate this
situation, detain all those involved in this bloodshed and punish them
for the crimes they committed, in accordance with the law,” he said.
