MOSCOW. Jan 14 (Interfax) - Russia will urge the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to look into the shelling of a passenger bus near a roadblock in the Volnovakha area in Ukraine, Russian Envoy to the OSCE Andrei Kelin said.
"We will speak about this at a Permanent Council [sitting] on Thursday [January 15] and we will demand an inquiry," he told Interfax answering a question about Russia's attitude to that tragedy.
Twelve people were killed and another 17 suffered injuries in an attack on a bus near the Volnovakha roadblock on Tuesday afternoon.
The army operation press center said that the armed opponents of Kyiv opened Grad rocket launcher fire on the roadblock. "The fire aimed at the Starobeshevo-Stila sector," the press center wrote on Facebook.
Self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) People's Council Speaker Andrei Purgin denied the militia's involvement in the Volnovakha shooting incident.
"We are technically incapable of opening mortar fire [at this roadblock]. That's a Ukrainian affair, let them deal with it," he told reporters.
The DPR defense ministry confirmed the inability of the militia to shell that roadblock. "There is only one Ukrainian roadblock in the Volnovakha area and it is outside the zone of operation of our artillery. We cannot shell it," a ministry representative told Interfax.