According to the Crimea bureau of our Ukrainian Service, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation will monitor the situation of Crimea's Muslims, the Tatars:
These are said to be the reported execution orders signed by pro-Russian separatist leaders in Slovyansk:
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An adviser to Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov has said separatist rebels in the east may have killed as many as 30 government soldiers in a rocket attack.
Zoryan Shkyryak is quoted by Reuters as saying the rebels used Grad multiple-rocket launchers in their assault.
"Up to 30 [were killed]," Shkyryak said. "It is not excluded that the number of victims will rise because these bloodthirsty scum despicably shot from Grad [missile] systems and there is destruction."
The news comes amid a renewed government offensive against the rebels.
Military spokesman Vladyslav Seleznyov claimed that at least 50 separatist fighters had been killed in the last few days.
The Ukrainian military said it has a plan to deliver a "nasty surprise" to the rebels holed up in Donetsk, a city of 900,000, after being pushed out of their bastion in Slovyansk last weekend. (Reuters, UNIAN, and Interfax)
Supposedly the military situation in eastern Ukraine: