Russian Foreign Ministry calls on the United States to stop distorting the truth and defending Kiev
The official spokesperson of the US State Department, Heather Nauert, retweeted the SMM report on her Twitter account. In it, it is said that on June 14, six observers heard warning shots in the area of the village of Pikuzi, 23 km from Mariupol.
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The document says that the mission representatives got out of the car to check the tracks of the armored vehicle, then 50 meters away they saw two armed men, one of whom opened fire in the air.
According to SMM, those were warning shots. Ms. Nauert, in turn, wrote that "Russian subordinate troops used weapons to threaten personnel of the OSCE monitoring mission in eastern Ukraine."
“Such irresponsible statements are another attempt to confuse public opinion, to present Russia as a party to the internal Ukrainian conflict which is not the case, and to whitewash Kiev’s actions that are undermining its obligations under the Minsk agreements,” Zakharova said.
The Russian spokesman also advised the Americans to "responsibly and professionally" approach public statements and called on Washington to influence Kiev, so that they begin to implement the Minsk agreements.
