Ukraine’s envoy to the Trilateral Contact Group, Yevhen Marchuk, says the Russian side at the negotiations in Minsk categorically rejects Ukraine’s proposal on the introduction of monitoring by the observers of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) over the uncontrolled section of the Russian-Ukrainian border in the occupied part of Donbas.
“As expected, the first two hours of the ceasefire discussion were held amid harsh mutual accusations. We could not begin discussing specific activities since the Russian side categorically did not accept the proposals of the Ukrainian side,” Marchuk wrote on Facebook.
