Contact with two groups of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) observers reportedly being held by militants in eastern Ukraine has not been re-established so far, a spokesman for the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine told Interfax on Friday.
The first group of four OSCE monitors, among them citizens of
Switzerland, Estonia, Turkey and Denmark, went missing in the Donetsk
region late on May 26. The second OSCE team of four disappeared near the
city of Severodonetsk in the Luhansk region on May 29.
The Ukrainian Security Service accused Cossacks from Russia of being
involved in the OSCE monitors’ abduction in the Luhansk region.
