Posted on 04/25/2014 12:38:16 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
Eight members of a military monitoring mission were captured on April 25 and are held hostage in the city of Sloviansk by pro-Russian separatist forces, OSCE said on Friday. The monitors were traveling by bus from Kramatorsk to Sloviansk in Donetsk oblast, Ukraine's interior ministry said.
“Communication with military observers in Donetsk lost,” OSCE said in its Twitter microblog. “The military verification team – led by Germans, and composed of eight members, (including) four Germans, one Czech, one Danish, one Polish and one Swedish.”
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Four Germans, one Czech, one Danish, one Polish and one Swedish walk into a bar...
What is an “international military observation mission?”
I’m concerned about reports that journalists are being taken prisoner as alleged spies, but my mind is racing to come up with a definition of “international military observation mission?” that isn’t the same as the definition of a spy.
And let’s be clear: they work for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the very organization threatening to militarily engage the separatists.
“the very organization threatening to militarily engage the separatists.”
LOL ! Source ?
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