It's of course predictable that you should throw in phrases like 'the Pro-Putin lobby' (yawn) and grasp at whatever straws you can find to back up your repetitive assertions of 'invasion and occupation'; the only question worthy of attention here is why you continue to insist your version of reality is the truth. I have posted my theories on this matter. I don't think I am far off the mark. I think your agenda and motivation are transparent.
So you think the OSCE reports, commissioned by various member governments, are in some way constrained by Russia? You think there is some deep, dark secret that the OSCE can't reveal? You refuse to believe international observers on the scene who are actively monitoring traffic representing 43% of crossings into Russia from Ukraine.
Why do you assume the statement in the last paragraph that you quote refers to Russian media? No such distinction was made in the report. Maybe you imagine they dare not breathe the word 'Russian'. Maybe you think there is some conspiracy afoot.
Naturally you prefer to believe 'other reports', which have in common that they are not constrained by attention to fact:
Of course NATO says blah blah blah.
Of course the US ambassador bleats on. He is an employee of the State Department after all.
It's all very reminiscent of the '20,000 troops!' '44,000 troops!' 'No! Wait! 800,000 troops massed at the border!' breathless reportage that happened a few months ago.
And you post a brave Torygraph attempt to make a lot more hay about one mother's issues with the army than the situation warrants -- to be fair to the article's author the desperation to manufacture a story is actually very clear from the mid point of the article on.
'Interestingly, and despite their anxiety, most of the relatives said they believed the official government theory that the soldiers got lost while on an exercise.
However, several said it was an “alarm signal” that the young men send text messages after their departure to Rostov saying their phones were being removed, something that had not happened when they were dispatched on exercises to other parts of Russia.
One of the soldiers had already written on his social networking account that he was going to “exterminate Maidan” (meaning pro-western Ukrainians) and another sent a final message to his girlfriend saying his unit was unloading in Matveyev Kurgan, a settlement 15 miles short of the Ukrainian border.
In the video recordings released by the SBU, one of the soldiers criticised Russian authorities and said he knew in the end that he was going to Ukraine.
“They brainwash us Russians, I’ll tell you that,” said Ivan Melchakov, a slight man in camouflage fatigues. “In fact, everything is different. Not the way they say on television. But we simple guys, they tell us what to do, we do it. We’re coming here like cannon fodder.”
Mrs Garina, who is Mr Pochtoyev’s mother, says she thinks the young men were speaking under duress from their Ukrainian captors. “They are low-ranking soldiers who were led like blind mice by their officers, they thought they were on an exercise,” she said.
“If the government doesn’t help them, we mothers ourselves will go to rescue them.”
The men’s fate remains unclear. Ukrainian authorities have not said what will happen to them but there are rumours of an exchange for a captured Ukrainian pilot being held in Russia.
In Kostroma, the regiment has given a vague promise to update the relatives on Friday. An officer at the headquarters told the Telegraph there was no one available for comment.
Vyacheslav Savosteyev, whose son Vladimir, 27, is among the captives, said he was already thinking of leaving for Ukraine. “It’s a big country, though, I’m not sure how I would find him,” he said. “Maybe I’ll go to the border and ask the customs officers.”
Interesting mention of a Ukrainian pilot though.