Armed members of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) have threatened to detain and handcuff monitors of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine.
“Armed ‘DPR’ members threatened to ‘detain’ & handcuff SMM monitors near Staromykhailivka. [The] OSCE SMM [is] ready/able to monitor, but prevented,” the OSCE SMM tweeted on Sept. 23.