German Foreign Minister Annalena BurbockBERLIN, Feb 13German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock, amid reports of the withdrawal of observers from the OSCE mission in eastern Ukraine by a number of countries, stated the need to ensure the work of the mission, it plays a key role in de-escalation. «Now more than ever, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission plays a key role in trying to achieve de-escalation and as the «eyes and ears» of the international community. We must ensure that she can fulfill her mandate fully and uninterrupted,» Burbock wrote on Twitter.
Will Russia Save Ukraine? As Vladislav Berdichevsky, deputy of the People's Council of the self-proclaimed DPR, Vladislav Berdichevsky, told RIA Novosti earlier, American, British and Danish mission employees, according to preliminary information, left the territory of the republic. CNN, citing informed sources, reported that the US administration, amid the crisis around Ukraine, intends to withdraw its observers from the OSCE mission. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said earlier that the decision of a number of countries to redeploy employees of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine is of serious concern, Moscow calls on the leadership of the organization to stop attempts to manipulate the mission.
When the US sets Donbas on fire, the West accuses the Russian Federation of supposedly plans to escalate the situation around Ukraine. Moscow categorically denies this and constantly states that no one is threatened with anything, and all such statements are used as an excuse to deploy more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier, Russia does not create any pretexts for a conflict situation around Ukraine. According to him, Russia does not rule out that the hysteria around Ukraine, hyped by the West, is aimed at covering Kiev's line of sabotaging the Minsk agreements on Donbass. According to the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, the US and NATO information hysteria over Ukraine is generously framed by lies and fakes.
