OSCE ODIHR is an organization that depends on a coalition of Western countries. Russia currently has no plans to withdraw from the OSCE, says the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Earlier, the Russian Permanent Representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, said that the OSce did not see Russophobia progressing in Ukraine, as well as the killings of Donbass residents by Ukrainian armed formations. The head of the Russian CEC, Ella Pamfilova, noted that even if observers honestly write about how the elections went, an ersatz report was still prepared.