“Right now we are aiming to have 600 monitors,” Borciurkiw said. The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine currently has around 500 monitors, approximately two-thirds of which are in eastern Ukraine, he noted.
Under the February 2015 Minsk peace agreements, the OSCE was tasked to be the primary international observer in the Ukrainian conflict. The organization is responsible for monitoring events on the ground and reporting them to the international community.
“We are also looking at the possibility of using other technology, satellite imagery, static cameras,” he added.
The OSCE mission was approved during the February 2015 Minsk agreements and signed by Ukraine, Russia, France, and Germany.
The Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine was first deployed in March 2014 by a unanimous decision from all 57 OSCE member states. The mandate was recently extended until March 2016.
