Poroshenko awarded the Order of Merit to an American from the OSCE mission who was blown up by a mine
Petro Poroshenko posthumously awarded a state award to Joseph Stone, an American paramedic who worked in the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, who died when an SMM vehicle was blown up in Donbass.
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The press service of the Ukrainian president reported this .
In particular, the President awarded Joseph Stone with the Order of Merit, Third Class, posthumously.
It is indicated that the American died on April 23, 2017 while performing his official duties as part of a surveillance patrol. The car of the OSCE special mission, in which Joseph and two other mission employees were in it, was blown up by a landmine planted near the village of Prishib in the Lugansk region. Stone died from his wounds, and two of his colleagues were seriously injured. Later, evidence appeared on the Internet that what happened was a provocation of the so-called. “ATO forces.” However, official Kyiv denied everything, blaming the DPR for the incident.
English version :: Read in English Poroshenko awarded the Order of Merit to an American from the OSCE mission who was killed by a mine.