Ukrainian soldier in the Donetsk region. File photoMOSCOW, February 14The Netherlands decided to take out five of its OSCE staff from eastern Ukraine, and seven people involved in the EU advisory mission on reforming the civilian security sector of Ukraine (EUAM) will also return to their homeland, NOS TV channel reports with reference to the country's Foreign Ministry. On Sunday, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) confirmed that some countries are withdrawing their observers from Ukraine, and assured that they will continue monitoring activity in the country. According to the channel, the Netherlands had a total of eight employees in Ukraine as part of the OSCE mission and also eight are involved in the EUAM mission. Five OSCE staff are recalled by the Netherlands, three more are in Kiev. The Foreign Ministry told the channel that it is not yet known whether they will stay in the Ukrainian capital or leave it. Of the eight EUAM employees, seven are returning to the Netherlands, the channel indicates. The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) began work on March 21, 2014 in connection with the government of Ukraine in the OSCE and a consensus decision of all 57 OSCE participating States. As Vladislav Berdichevsky, deputy of the People's Council of the self-proclaimed DPR, Vladislav Berdichevsky, told RIA Novosti earlier, according to preliminary information, American, British and Danish members of the mission left the territory of the republic. >The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry recommended that citizens immediately leave Ukraine As Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova noted earlier, the decision of a number of countries to redeploy employees of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine is of serious concern, Moscow calls on the leadership of the organization to stop attempts to manipulate the mission. The West accuses the Russian Federation of allegedly plans to escalate the situation around Ukraine. Moscow categorically denies this and constantly says that no one is threatened, and all such statements are used as an excuse to place 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 information hysteria of the USA and NATO on Ukraine is generously framed by lies and fakes. , said Rabinovich
