First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Dmitry PolyanskyUN, Apr 19Ukrainian militants used eight vehicles of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM), the organization was silent about this fact to the last, First Deputy Representative of Russia Dmitry Polyansky said at a meeting of the UN Security Council. At the end of February, Azov militants came to the SMM office in Mariupol demanding to hand over the keys to the mission's vehicles. When they refused, they threatened to shoot its employees. As a result, the militants took possession of eight vehicles with OSCE markings, including armored ones,» Polyansky said.< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/fac01918a66ac429ab3f888fc11acc01.jpg" />The drone filmed the territory of the Azovstal plant before the announcement of the silence regime, according to him, one of these vehicles was later found five kilometers from the SMM office in the Kievsky market area of Mariupol. It had traces of use in hostilities, the diplomat pointed out. «None of these vehicles was returned to the OSCE. Similar threats were received against employees in Severodonetsk in late February and early March. The OSCE leadership was aware of the problem, but preferred to hush it up this fact to the last,» Polyansky emphasized.
Nationalists from Azov shot Ukrainian soldiers in the backAccording to him, such revelations undermine faith in any international organizations whose officials are dominated by Western countries. «I will not hide the fact that calls for peace and a ceasefire sound very false and insincere in these conditions, which in practice mean only a desire to give Kiev nationalists and radicals a respite so that they could regroup, get new batches of drones, ATGMs and MANPADS, and along the way also arrange new inhuman provocations and launch new fakes about the actions of Russian soldiers,» he concluded.
