This is one of those pieces of news that quickly travels around the world. On Saturday 16, two men were captured by Ukrainian Armed Forces at the contact line near Shchastya (30km from the Russian border). OSCE’s inspectors spoke privately with the two men at a military hospital in Kiev where they had been brought because wounded. On SMM reports it is said that “both individuals claimed that they were members of a unit of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation”[1].
According to the two men, they were “on a reconnaissance mission”, they “were armed but had no orders to attack” and “Both of them said they had been to Ukraine on missions before”. One of them repeatedly stated that “there were no Russian troops involved in fighting in Ukraine”.
On Monday, Triage attended a lecture that was held at Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI). The object of the lecture was the threat posed by global jihad and its general purpose was to answer questions like “how big this threat is?”, “which countries are in danger?”, “what are the implication for Italian foreign policy and Italian defence and security?”. These questions are thoroughly answered in a report entitled “L’Italia e la minaccia jihadista. Quale politica estera?” edited by the ISPI Observatory on Terrorism.
Eleven weeks have passed since the beginning of the truce in eastern Ukraine. Triage’s updates’ purpose is to provide a report on the implementation status of the first three point of Minsk II agreement:
1. Immediate and full ceasefire and its strict fulfilment as of 00.00 (Kiev time) on February 15.
2. Pull-out of all heavy weapons by both sides to equal distance to create a security zone on minimum 50 kilometres apart for artillery of 100mm calibre or more, of 70km for MLRS and 140 kilometres for MLRS Tornado-S, Uragan, Smerch and tactical missile systems Tochka U.
3. Monitoring and verification of ceasefire regime and pull-out of heavy weapons by OSCE.
Ten weeks have passed since the beginning of the truce in eastern Ukraine. Triage’s updates’ purpose is to provide a report on the implementation status of the first three point of Minsk II agreement:
1. Immediate and full ceasefire and its strict fulfilment as of 00.00 (Kiev time) on February 15.
2. Pull-out of all heavy weapons by both sides to equal distance to create a security zone on minimum 50 kilometres apart for artillery of 100mm calibre or more, of 70km for MLRS and 140 kilometres for MLRS Tornado-S, Uragan, Smerch and tactical missile systems Tochka U.
3. Monitoring and verification of ceasefire regime and pull-out of heavy weapons by OSCE.
