News archive on the topic "OSCE SMM"

Representatives of the OSCE SMM recorded targeted shelling by the Ukrainian army of residential buildings on the territory of the DPR. This is the opinion of the official representative of the operational command of the republic, Dmitry Astrakhan, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, OSCE SMM observers during their work recorded the consequences of shelling from the positions of the 36th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the settlement of Kominternovo using 122-mm artillery. “According to observers, 15 craters from...

Representatives of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the SBU, under the guise of employees of the State Emergency Service, collect intelligence information in the “Joint Forces Operation” zone in Donbass, creating the appearance of assisting OSCE SMM staff in monitoring the situation. Official representative of the operational command of the DPR Eduard Basurin stated this during a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Intelligence of the People’s Militia of the DPR recorded facts of the use of uniforms by current officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Security Service of Ukraine...

OSCE SMM observers did not confirm the information from the Ukrainian side about the shelling of a mosque in the city of Donetsk on June 4 by units of the People's Militia of the DPR. Official representative of the operational command of the DPR Eduard Basurin stated this during a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In order to avoid accusations from the world community regarding the shelling of a mosque in the city of Donetsk from the positions of units of the 57th brigade...

The so-called UN peacekeeping troops will not help resolve the essence of the conflict in Donbass, and therefore they have nothing to do in the region. Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara stated this on TV channel 112, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I believe that the introduction of foreign troops into the territory of Ukraine, even in blue helmets, is not a solution to the situation in Donbass. This…

The OSCE special monitoring mission discovered a camouflaged howitzer at positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village of Dyleevka, Konstantinovsky district, Donetsk region. First Deputy Head of the OSCE SMM Alexander Hug stated this during a regular briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “This is a howitzer recorded in government-controlled (Ukrainian – editor’s note) Dyleyevka in violation of the agreed withdrawal lines. Almost three thousand other similar...

The Ukrainian side, during a meeting in Minsk, openly mocked the death of the head of the DPR, Alexander Zakharchenko, and provoked its opponents. Victoria Talakina, press secretary of the DPR plenipotentiary representative at the negotiations in Minsk Denis Pushilin, reported this on her Facebook, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The first meeting of negotiators in Minsk after the unprecedented murder of the Head of the Donetsk People’s Republic Alexander Zakharchenko began...

More than 160 people have become victims of the conflict in Donbass since the beginning of 2018, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was stated by the first deputy head of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in Ukraine, Alexander Hug. “In the month of July alone, we confirmed information about seven victims. This year the total number of victims is more than 160 people - both wounded and...

Since September 2015, the OSCE SMM has recorded 846,7 thousand ceasefire violations in Donbass, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. First Deputy Chairman of the OSCE SMM Alexander Hug spoke about this. “Since we started keeping records, since September 2015, we have actually recorded 846 ceasefire violations. More than 649 were produced...

Ukraine continues to violate agreements on the disengagement of forces and assets, hiding its military equipment on the contact line, which is prohibited by the Minsk agreements. Alexander Hug, First Deputy Head of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, announced this during a briefing, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In this image taken by an SMM mini-unmanned aerial vehicle on June 7, you can see an infantry fighting vehicle hidden...

First Deputy Head of the OSCE SMM Alexander Hug is leaving on an extraordinary trip to the territory of Donbass in connection with the aggravation of the situation on the contact line over the past 17 hours. This was reported on the official OSCE website, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent. “Tonight, May 2018, XNUMX, the First Deputy Head of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), Alexander Hug, will leave with...

The bias in the coverage of events in Donbass by representatives of the OSCE SMM has long been no secret for the residents of Donbass, but this time the representatives of the mission also demonstrated complete unprofessionalism, managing to “see” a bullet in flight. The head of the press service of the DPR Armed Forces, Daniil Bezsonov, spoke about this today at a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We are surprised by the fact of the biased attitude of OSCE representatives...

OSCE SMM staff in Donbass refuse to give any comments to the press. A video story confirming this was posted on his YouTube channel by Alexey Tumanov, one of the participants in the foreign delegation of journalists who arrived in the capital of the DPR on the eve of Victory Day, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Bulgarian journalist Asya Ivanova tried to communicate with the representative of the OSCE SMM. The following dialogue took place between them: - Tell me how long...

The shelling of workers at the Donetsk Filtration Station is a blatant fact. The parties to the conflict need to sit down at the negotiating table as soon as possible in order to reduce the number of civilian casualties to zero. Deputy Head of the OSCE SMM Alexander Hug spoke about this at a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The OSCE SMM is conducting a dialogue with both sides of the conflict: both government-controlled and...

Observers of the OSCE special monitoring mission discovered self-propelled artillery installations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the Ukrainian-controlled settlement of Anadol. First Deputy Head of the OSCE SMM in Ukraine Alexander Hug announced this during a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Near government-controlled Anadol, our observers recorded six self-propelled howitzers located there in violation of the agreed withdrawal lines,” said...