The U.S. State Department said on June 22 it was “deeply concerned” about a pattern of violence by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine targeting unarmed civilians of a European mission monitoring the conflict in region.
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Reuters: US voices concern about violence against monitors in east Ukraine
An armed Russian-backed separatist walks past a convoy of the OSCE near village Pryshyb, near Lugansk, on April 25, where a OSCE patrol vehicle was destroyed in an explosion on April 23.