OSCE monitoring mission representativesMOSCOW, 1 Apr.Russia calls on the OSCE Secretariat to immediately begin measures to wind down the Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. support.» In the current political and legal realities, the mission's functions in accordance with the previous mandate, which extended to the territory of the now independent DPR and LHP, became impossible, she stressed. «In this regard, Russia did not support its extension for the next year. This means that its further activities do not have the consensus support of the participating States and, therefore, cannot be carried out de jure We call on the OSCE Secretariat to immediately begin measures to wind down the SMM, sell its property, terminate employment contracts with its personnel, and settle contractual obligations ne service providers, landlords,” Zakharova said in a comment posted on the ministry’s website. “De facto, all monitoring and reporting functions of the SMM were terminated as early as March 7 this year, when all of its international personnel were withdrawn from Ukraine, the DPR and LHP. We pay special attention to the inadmissibility of repeating cases when OSCE property temporarily remaining in Ukraine, especially armored vehicles, fell into the hands of Ukrainian armed formations,» the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
“There are no Nazis in Ukraine”: Russia and the West know and remember different things about NazismZakharova also expressed regret that “due to constant opposition and pressure from Kyiv and its Western patrons, the SMM leadership did not fully convey to the world community the information collected by the observers about violations of the ceasefire regime, destruction and casualties among the civilian population of the DPR and LHP as a result of the punitive operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the national battalions. «Over time, professionalism and impartiality in the work of the Mission increasingly gave way to a selective approach to facts and political bias. The SMM leadership frankly played along with Kiev , did not fulfill the prescription of the mandate to establish normal working contacts with the authorities and residents of Donbass,» she stressed, noting that the Mission did not properly monitor the situation in the field of human rights. ideology. the contrast between the benevolent picture that the SMM reports painted and the real state of affairs, which is now more and more clearly revealed, turned out to be striking,» Zakharova summed up. />The Foreign Ministry said that NATO countries are playing with fire, supplying weapons to Ukraine
