Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine Alexander Hug stated that the Mission was ready to open new patrol bases in the occupied part of Donbas in case Russia-backed separatists provide security guarantees for observers, an UNIAN correspondent reported from Hug’s briefing video streamed from the separatist-held Debaltseve.
UNIAN: OSCE ready to open new patrol bases in separatist-held Donbas
Alexander Hug, the deputy head of the OSCE monitoring mission in Ukraine, arrives for his press-conference in Kiev on April 23, 2017.The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe said Sunday one of its US monitors in Ukraine died after a patrol vehicle hit a landmine in the Russian-backed separatist east.It marked the first loss for the security body's Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) since Europe's only war broke out more than three years ago. / AFP PHOTO / Sergei SUPINSKY
