Maria Zakharova, official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. File photoMOSCOW, Feb. 19After withdrawing its observers from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, the United States apparently wanted its citizens not to convict Washington of lying about the situation in Donbas, said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharov. «The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission records shelling, which is much more from the forces controlled by Kiev. Perhaps that is why Washington withdrew US citizen observers from the mission so that there were no American witnesses. After all, they could accuse their government of lying» , — Zakharova wrote in her Telegram channel. As RIA Novosti was previously told by Vladislav Berdichevsky, deputy of the People's Council of the self-proclaimed DPR, American, British and Danish mission employees, according to preliminary information, left the territory of the republic. As Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova previously noted, the decision a number of countries to redeploy the staff of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine is a matter of serious concern, Moscow calls on the leadership of the organization to stop attempts to manipulate the mission.
