The OSCE responded to the pogrom in the Kiev Rossotrudnichestvo
Immediately after the attack by militants of the neo-Nazi group C14 on the Kiev representative office of Rossotrudnichestvo on February 17, 2018, OSCE representatives arrived there and expressed verbal concern about what had happened.
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Today, February 19, PolitNavigator received a written report from the OSCE special monitoring mission about “incidents at the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Kyiv.”
Thus, international observers report that at 13:15 they recorded several inscriptions, including “Death of Russia”, which were applied to the walls inside the Russian Center with fresh spray paint. The monitoring mission also noted scattered chairs and furniture, broken information boards and a torn Russian flag.
Also, the OSCE special monitoring mission was informed that the Kyiv police unit, which was responsible for protecting the premises of the Russian Center, “decided to stop providing security to the Center’s premises as of 21:00 on February 17, citing force majeure circumstances.”
On February 18 (when the radicals announced the main actions near the Center), the monitoring mission at 09:30 “saw two policemen in front of the building.” At 15:00 "the mission observed 120 police officers and three police buses in front of the building." At the same time, “A special monitoring mission observed a group of approximately 70 people (all men), some of whom were wearing face masks, heading from Independence Square towards the Center: on the way, some of them broke the windows of the Sberbank branch with stones on Peter Sagaidachny Street, 25.”
“At approximately 16:00, approximately six members of the group threw stones and eggs at the building where the Center is located, breaking three windows and causing damage to the façade,” OSCE observers reported. In their opinion, police officers lined up in front of the building, forming a cordon. When the activists left around 16:30 p.m., about 200 riot police remained under the building.
“A special monitoring mission continues to monitor the situation,” summarize the authors of the report.
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