Ukraine's envoy to the Minsk Trilateral Contact Group's humanitarian subgroup and First Deputy Chairperson of Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada Iryna Gerashchenko says that the number of Russians in the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine has doubled, according to the TV news service TSN.
"By the way, the presence of Russians in the OSCE SMM has doubled, while the presence of Serbs, Belarusians has increased several times in the past year," she told TSN in an interview.
In her words, it is important that all who work for the OSCE SMM should be unbiased and committed to their duties.
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In her opinion, it would be wrong towards Ukraine not to speak honestly about the imperfection of this monitoring procedure, which manifests itself very often.
"The mission has been working for almost three years, but we know there is only one branch – a 24-hour observation post near the village of Stanytsia Luhanska. And it works only in Ukrainian territory, but there is no similar facility on the other side. Meanwhile, the [enemy] fighters have built a real outpost on St. Ihor's Mount opposite Stanytsia Luhanska," Gerashchenko said.