Russian separatists ARE terrorists.

There is no parsing their actions.  By seizing OSCE observers yesterday and using them as bargaining tools for prisoners, they have violated UN treaty laws and are nothing but two-bit terrorists.

Article 19 of Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949:

"Neutral and other States not Parties to the conflict shall apply the relevant provisions of this Protocol to persons protected by this Part who may be received or interned within their territory, and to any dead of the Parties to that conflict whom they may find."

In other words, neutral observers shall be afforded the same protections as neutral medical personnel.  By seizing OSCE -- which Russia is a member of -- and using them as bargaining tools in a conflict, they have broken international law.

This is not an isolated incident, either.  There have been nearly a dozen other people who have been detained, tortured, beaten with at least one politician killed by pro-Russian separatists.  They are the thugs and cowards who hide behind masks to alleviate their conscience of identification with the depraved actions they have committed against their fellow humans.

Russians who believe in the lies of (Ras)Putin and his debauchery come nationalist imperial expansion, enable these terrorists to drag the region into a war with Putin's soldiers as pawns.