The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has denied claims by First Deputy Chair of the Verkhovna Rada and Ukraine's humanitarian envoy to the Trilateral Contact Group for Donbas Settlement Iryna Gerashchenko that the number of Russian representatives in the Mission doubled over the past year.
According to the Mission's statement, the number of Russians has even decreased over the said period.
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As UNIAN reported earlier, MP Iryna Gerashchenko said that the number of Russian citizens in the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Donbas had doubled.