All OSCE SMM vehicles leave DPR, Donetsk says

The vehicle of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission leaves the territory of the Donetsk People's RepublicDONETSK, 1 Mar.All 43 vehicles of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission are leaving the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, a DPR representative in the joint center for monitoring and coordinating the ceasefire regime told RIA Novosti. It is noted that according to the plans, representatives of the monitoring mission should cross the Uspenka checkpoint on the border with Russia. The day before, the OSCE SMM stated in a daily report that the monitoring teams in Donetsk and Luhansk were waiting to be evacuated. Prior to this, OSCE Secretary General Helga Schmid said that she decided to take out all members of the mission as soon as possible. On the eve of the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, said that the LPR group, with the fire support of the Russian military, is conducting successful offensive operations and has advanced 23 kilometers. In recent weeks the situation in the Donbass has seriously deteriorated: Kyiv has concentrated most of the army on the line of contact and intensified shelling of the DPR and LPR, using equipment prohibited by the Minsk agreements. Against this background, on February 19, the authorities of the republics turned to Russia with a request to recognize their independence. Two days later, on February 21, Vladimir Putin signed decrees recognizing the sovereignty of the LPR and DPR, and on February 24 announced the launch of a special operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. The head of state called the protection of the inhabitants of Donbass its goal. The Ministry of Defense stressed that they do not strike civilian targets on the territory of Ukraine — only military infrastructure; nothing threatens the civilian population.The development of the situation is in the online report >>«Biden was destroyed with company». How the world reacted to Russia's actionsPosted by: O. Fomchenkova