The OSCE special monitoring mission has no plans to stop their surveillance activities, despite the possibility that " There are those who wish that the OSCE has ceased to report about what is happening in Donetsk ", said

"There are those who, apparently, wants the OSCE has ceased to report about what is happening in Donetsk. There are some who believe a justified means to achieve this goal, a violent attack on civilians and their property ", - is reported on the page of SMM OSCE in Facebook. The report notes that SMM has no plans to stop their surveillance activities.


first Plenipotentiary representative of the DND on the negotiations of the contact group in Minsk Denis Putilin said that the provocation addressed to the workers of the OSCE was aimed at curtailing the work of the mission in the Donbass. According to him, today the Ukrainian security forces from active combat constrains only the presence of observers in the field. He drew attention that the authorities DND " extremely disadvantageous it would be the expulsion out of the special monitoring mission of the OSCE."

in the treatment of SMM OSCE also noted that " the responsibility for ensuring the protection of workers SMM and its property lies on those who have oversight in Donetsk ".

The OSCE mission also stressed that reports about this attack on its civilian observers in Donetsk as objectively, impartially and quickly, and the violent attacks that touches the Residents of Ukraine in the East.

first it was announced that last night SMM registered fire several machines of the OSCE in the Parking lot in front of the residence of the OSCE in Donetsk. Firefighters responded quickly and tried to extinguish the fire. In the end, four cars SMM were killed by the fire.

As before said Last news Deputy head of the special monitoring mission Alexander hug, OSCE has no plans to withdraw its workers from Donetsk after the incident with the burned cars, SMM re-check security measures.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat citizens of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the incident were more than 6, 8 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the incident.

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