KIEV, April 25 (RIA Novosti) - The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said Friday it had lost contact with a group of military experts from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) operating in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk Region.
"We have received information that communication has been lost with the members of the OSCE military mission in the Donetsk Region, which is in Ukraine in accordance to the Vienna document," said Evgeniy Perebiynis, the director for the department of information policy for the ministry.
The ministry earlier said a multinational group of military observers led by Germany had arrived in the country's southeastern region on April 21, replacing a Dutch team that had been working there since April 12.
The OSCE teams are currently deployed in nine locations across Ukraine, including Luhansk and Donetsk, where pro-federalization protests have been on the rise.
Eastern Ukraine has been hit by pro-federalization protests in mainly Russian-speaking regions. The Ukrainian government earlier announced a special operation to crack down on the unrest.
