The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has not received any information on the possibility that the OSCE mission may halt its work in Ukraine, Yevhen Perebyinis, director of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry's information department, said.
“If the OSCE believes members of its mission are in danger, they, of
course, have the right to transfer them to a safer place. However, we do
not have official information that the mission is halting its work,
they continue working,” Perebyinis told a briefing on May 28.
Perebyinis said the OSCE has a right to decide where members of its mission should be.
Wolfgang Ischinger, a special representative of the OSCE chairman,
said earlier on Wednesday the OSCE may decide to withdraw its monitors
from Ukraine if their lives are in danger.
The OSCE reported on May 27 that that it had lost contact with one of
its groups working in the Donetsk region. The mission told Interfax the
group comprises four people, citizens of Estonia, Switzerland, Turkey,
and Denmark.
On May 28, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said four members of a
special monitoring mission of the OSCE had been captured by the
opponents of the Kyiv authorities in the Donetsk region.
