Missing in the East of Ukraine last week, OSCE observers are alive and well, said Tuesday the Secretary General of the organization Lamberto Zannier.
" We know that. They are alive and well, " he told ITAR-TASS. Zannier called missing observers " hostages " and did not want to Supplement with whom are the conversations about their liberation and whether They are at all. Recall that on 26 may, the OSCE has lost contact with a group of observers in Donetsk. People's Slavyansk Mayor Vyacheslav Ponomarev said on the first day of the week that he did not know where Four of the OSCE observers. For the last period of time goes contradictory data about the situation with the missing OSCE observers in Ukraine. So before Ponomarev said that the OSCE observers, communication with which disappeared on may 26, are in the hands of forces under his control. According to him, " when they found suspicious equipment that can be used for spying ". On the first day weekend co-chair of the public movement " the people's front of Donbass " Vladimir Rogov also said that the observers were tied and check. In addition, the OSCE has reported a loss of communication with observers on Wednesday (DND) and on the last working day of the week (in LNR). At the same time Italy's foreign Minister said on the release of observers and contact with them was lost on Wednesday. However, on the last working day of the week authorized the information centre of the South-Eastern front Sergey Veselovsky said that Authorized militia tied in Lugansk region 4 of Europeans, according to one version members of the mission of OSCE observers. However, the leadership of the Luhansk people's Republic refuted messages about the detention." Four observers, including one citizen of Russia, and the rest of Western Europeans, and in truth, went to Severodonetsk. There they are well met, gave a tour showed everything that interests them. Watered, fed ", - have told in the press service LNR.

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