The foreign Ministry expressed hope for an early start of the work of the OSCE mission in Rostov region
The Russian foreign Ministry hopes that the OSCE observers in the near future will start to work on monitoring of the Russian-Ukrainian border. " Monitoring at border crossing points " Gukovo " and " Donetsk " will carry 16 OSCE observers around the clock. They will provide maximum assistance by the Government of the Rostov region and relevant government agencies ", - reported in circulation, published on the Internet representative office of the Foreign Ministry." We hope that in the near future OSCE fully form a team of observers, who will assume his tasks, " added the foreign Minister. Recall, on Wednesday starts the work of observers of the OSCE mission in the Rostov region on the Russian checkpoints " Gukovo " and " Donetsk ". First Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia S. Lavrov Century asked the U.S. Secretary of state John Kerry, to the state Department " has ceased to obstruct the work of the OSCE, which shall send their representatives to the Russian border. On Tuesday the Russian customs officers at the checkpoint " Gukovo " came under fire from Ukraine. First the defence Ministry of Russia stated that the district of Russia has been attacked from Ukraine already nine times. In the result of one of the attacks in Donetsk, the Rostov region died a Russian citizen. The Russian foreign Ministry have said before Ukraine strong protest because of the attacks and asked in a persistent form to stop them. At the same time the U.S. claim that they have some information about artillery fire, which, as if it is conducted from the territory of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, but the evidence has not been presented.