Representatives of the OSCE monitoring mission. File photoLUHANSK, Apr 23The Ministry of State Security of the LPR announced the discovery of documents confirming the facts of interaction between representatives of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission with the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, follows from the statement of the department. mission with the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine,» the statement read.An OSCE employee detained in the LPR passed data to foreign intelligence services It is noted that residents of the LPR from among the OSCE personnel «on the instructions of the OSCE SMM (special monitoring mission of the organization. — Note ed.) from among foreign citizens for a long time collected information of a classified nature in the military and social and political spheres of the LPR.” According to the statement, the department’s employees found a “List of infrastructure facilities in the Lugansk region that may be subject to fire,” where their locations were indicated. The department also established that the head of the OSCE Severodonetsk team, Yaroslav Kurak, who is a citizen of Poland, received an instruction from the Deputy Head of the OSCE Luhansk Human Rights Team, Pilar Castro Moto, who is a Spanish citizen, «to collect information about infrastructure facilities located on the territory of the Luhansk region.» For these purposes, OSCE staff used their connections with the residents of the LPR. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine, to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. March completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
