'Worry About Daesh': Russian Senator Responds to US UN Envoy's Remark on Crimea

The senator noted that Haley should be concerned more about the atrocities committed by terrorists in Iraq than the situation on the Russian peninsula. Pushkov referred to a mass grave of 4,000 bodies belonging to Daesh’s victims near Mosul.

"The United States continues to condemn and call for an immediate end to the Russian occupation in Crimea. Crimea is a part of Ukraine. Our Crimea-related sanctions will remain in place until Russia returns control over the peninsula to Ukraine," Haley told the UN Security Council in early-February.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on the statement, saying that Moscow was "never overly optimistic" about Washington’s stance on sanctions.

"A mass grave of 4,000 bodies belonging to Daesh’s victims has been discovered in Iraq. Why is Nikki Haley silent on this? She should worry about this, not about Crimea. All quiet in Crimea," Pushkov said in a Twitter post.

​Recently, the Telegraph reported that the biggest mass grave in Iraq, with allegedly 4,000 bodies, was found near Mosul, where currently an offensive against Daesh is underway.

According to the report, a giant sinkhole turned into a mass grave is located in the desert near the town of Khasfa, off the Baghdad-Mosul highway.

Daesh terrorists killed Iraqi security personnel and dumped their bodies into the pit. Locals said that the killings in Khasfa began six months after the terrorist group took over Mosul in summer 2014.

 

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