LPR Expresses Concern Over Principles Of OSCE Monitoring Mission's Activities

Andrei Marochko, the spokesman for the militia of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), expressed concern over the principle of the work of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM).

LUHANSK (Ukraine) (UrduPoint news / Sputnik - 17th November, 2018) Andrei Marochko, the spokesman for the militia of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), expressed concern over the principle of the work of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM).

He pointed out that on Thursday several residential houses had been damaged as a result of Ukrainian forces' fire, which was not covered by the OSCE SMM reports.

"We are still concerned over the principles of the work of the OSCE SMM on the LPR territory ... That is nothing but hiding the Ukrainian crimes against the people of Donbas.

We ask the monitoring mission's leadership to put attention to this fact and take necessary measures," Marochko said.

The conflict in Donbas started in 2014, when the Ukrainian authorities launched a military operation against the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and the LPR that refused to recognize the new government in Kiev, which came to power after what they considered to be a coup.

In 2015, a ceasefire agreement brokered by the leaders of the Normandy Four group (France, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine) was reached in Minsk, but the situation has remained tense, with both parties accusing each other of violating the truce.