Istanbul Eminonu DistrictANKARA, Feb 13Turkey fully supports the activities of the OSCE monitoring mission in Ukraine, the country's Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) began work on March 21, 2014 in connection with the appeal of the Ukrainian government to the OSCE and the 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, 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 over Ukraine, intends to withdraw its observers from the OSCE mission.Turkey declared the impossibility of a war on the side of Ukraine against Russia «The activities of the OSCE special observer mission in Ukraine, which has been headed by Turkish ambassadors since its inception, are of great importance. We fully support them,» the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Twitter. noted the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, 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 alleged 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. in which Turkey will try to subdue the Crimea
