Attack on Maryinka was a joint operation of Russian troops and separatists, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power has said.
According to the special monitoring mission of the OSCE, separatists were moving heavy weapons before and during the collision, Power said during a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine in Washington on June 5.
The SMM was trying to contact the leadership of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic for half an hour on June 3, but they were either engaged or did not want to communicate with the mission, the ambassador said. She said that the recent attack on Maryinka was a joint operation by separatists and Russian military.
According to her data, in the fighting in the area of Maryinka on June 3, five Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 35 wounded, there are victims among the civilian population, but there is no data on losses among separatists and Russian troops. She also recalled that Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree, according to which information about the losses the Russia Armed Forces would be classified.
