The murder of the honorary Consul of Lithuania Nikolai (Mykola) Silence in Lugansk demonstrates the need to urgently put an end to violence in the East of Ukraine, said the Ambassador and permanent Commissioner of Switzerland in the organization Thomas Greminger (Thomas Greminger) on behalf of the countries of the OSCE Chairman.

" The incident shows once again that the violence in the East of Ukraine must be stopped, and we must do everything possible to defuse the situation and to bring the parties to the dialogue, " according to a press statement by the OSCE, which was voiced by Greminger.

Greminger expressed his condolences to the government of Lithuania and the family Silence and said that the perpetrators must be prosecuted under the criminal code.

About the kidnapping and murder of Lithuanian Consul Nikolai (Mykola) Silence in Ukrainian Lugansk said on the last working day of the week the Minister of foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevicius.

Kyiv authorities since April of conduct in the East of Ukraine military operation directed against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat of the population of the region, where in early April, we announced the creation Of Donetsk and Lugansk national republics (DND and LNR), declared its independence on the results of the may referendum. In the Russian capital a special operation, which has already resulted in numerous casualties on both sides, and among them among the peaceful inhabitants, called punitive and evangelizing the world community to take all possible measures to stop the fire.


numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. They have been the reaction of the local population to violent change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law granting Russian the status of regional language. The center of the Pro-Russian opposition-minded people with power in Kiev became the Donbass. About how developed the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.

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