OSCE banners in ViennaWARSAW, Feb 20 Poland convenes an extraordinary meeting at the request of Ukraine OSCE Permanent Council, said Poland's representative to the OSCE Adan Halasinski. «At the request of Ukraine, the Polish Chairmanship will convene an extraordinary meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council,» the diplomat wrote on Twitter. He clarified that he had invited Special Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group Mikko Kinnunen and Head of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission Halit Cevik to participate in the meeting. jpg» />The permanent mission to the OSCE is surprised by the organization's reaction to the situation in UkraineThe situation in the Donbass has escalated in the past few days, the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics have announced a lot of shelling by the Ukrainian security forces. The leadership of the DPR and LPR announced the temporary evacuation of citizens to the Rostov region in connection with the threat of Ukraine's invasion. It primarily concerns women, children and the elderly. As stated by the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin, President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky will soon order the military to launch an offensive in the Donbass, to implement a plan to invade the territory of the DPR and LPR. On Saturday morning, the leaders of the DPR and LPR signed decrees on general mobilization in the republics. Western states and Kiev have recently expressed concern about Russia's allegedly dangerous actions near the borders of Ukraine. Moscow has repeatedly denied such accusations, saying that it does not threaten anyone and does not intend to attack anyone, and claims of «Russian aggression» are used as an excuse to place more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. Unsubstantiated claims that Russia is preparing provocations continue to come from the West, despite the return of Russian troops to their places of deployment after the exercises. Russia has repeatedly stressed that it is not a party to the conflict in Ukraine and the subject of the Minsk settlement agreements.
Zakharova commented on the response of the Americans from the OSCE missionPosted by: Ekaterina Zaitseva
