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A group of eight observers of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's permanent mission has arrived at the Veselo-Voznesenka border checkpoint on July 29 evening, spokesman for the Federal Security Service's Rostov regional department, Vasily Malayev said.

“The observers are going through formal procedures at the checkpoint,” Malayev said.

The OSCE experts have arrived in the Rostov region in seven motor vehicles.