The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has reported new cases of militants’ obstructing the activity of observers of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine.
“Russia and militants are again hindering the SMM. The SMM must have complete freedom of movement in accordance with the mandate, the Minsk agreements,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mariana Betsa wrote on her Twitter account on Wednesday.
Earlier, the press center of the headquarters of the Joint Forces Operation, referring to a report by the OSCE SMM, said that the militants continued to hinder the activities of the OSCE mission in monitoring the observance of the ceasefire and the withdrawal of weapons in the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
“The SMM’s access remained restricted in all three disengagement areas as well as near Zaichenko, Verkhnioshyrokivske, Bezimenne, Volnovakha and at a railway station in Voznesenivka, near the border with the Russian Federation,” the OSCE SMM said in a report on October 16.
