One international observer with the European security watchdog OSCE has been killed and two other monitors wounded after their vehicle struck a land mine while on patrol in eastern Ukraine on April 23, 2017.
The six-member patrol consisting of two armoured vehicles from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe was travelling on Sunday in an area of the Luhansk region, which is not under control of Ukrainian authorities.
A Ukrainian Foreign Ministry official confirmed the fatality to RFE/RL and said the person killed in the blast was an American paramedic.
In its statement released late on April 23, the State Department said it was “shocked and deeply saddened” by the death of the American citizen “when his vehicle struck an explosive in separatist-controlled territory.”
Read more:
1) http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-osce-monitor-killed-ukraine-20170423-story.html
2) https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-osce-member-killed-mine-blast/28447060.html
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