OSCE Special Monitoring Mission banned in Donetsk People's Republic

Sunday, 10 April 2022, 00:15

The so-called "Donetsk People's Republic" has declared the activities of the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to be illegal, and is demanding that representatives of the Mission leave the territory of the so-called republic by April 30.

Source: "order" of the State Defence Committee of the "Donetsk People's Republic"

Details: The "order" states that the presence of the OSCE SMM is deemed undesirable.

SMM employees must relocate the organisation's property and meet all its financial obligations within the territory of Donetsk People's Republic by April 30.

Background: A local resident who worked for OSCE SMM was detained in the Donetsk People's Republic for "activities incompatible with the mission's mandate" the day before.