OSCE Mission in Ukraine Confirms Some States Withdraw Observers

© AFP 2023 / Igor TkachenkoMembers of the Special Monitoring Mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) to Ukraine walk past a house damaged by shelling, in the village of Spartak outside Donetsk April 10, 2015
Members of the Special Monitoring Mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) to Ukraine walk past a house damaged by shelling, in the village of Spartak outside Donetsk April 10, 2015 - Sputnik International, 1920, 13.02.2022
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VIENNA (Sputnik) - The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) has confirmed that some countries are withdrawing their observers from Ukraine, but assured that it will continue its monitoring mission in the country.
"Recently, certain participating States have decided that their respective secondees in the SMM should leave Ukraine within the next days. The SMM will continue to implement its OSCE approved mandate with its monitors deployed in ten cities throughout Ukraine," the mission said in a statement.
An official from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic said that American, British and Danish SMM employees had left the territory of the republic.
Deputy head of OSCE Mission to Ukraine Alexander Hug   - Sputnik International, 1920, 13.02.2022
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