Earlier, the head of the OSCE SMM in Ukraine, Yashar Halit Cevik, said in an interview with Reuters that the organization's mission in Lugansk is suspending its activities "for security reasons."
“The Luhansk office has not received any instructions from the leadership of the mission and continues to work as usual,” RIA Novosti quotes a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the LPR.
In the Telegram of the ministry, it is specified that the information about the "suspension" of the OSCE SMM in the Donbass was commented on by the head of the Luhansk Office, Jurgen Welner, in whose opinion messages about Chevik's words are read "ambiguously".
Also, TASS, citing a source, reports that the OSCE SMM's Lugansk office has not yet received orders to suspend its activities.
“Yes, we have read the message from Chevik, but at the moment we have not received any indications of curtailing the work, so we continue to work for now,” the agency was told.
On October 14 in Lugansk, they said that the representative of the republic, Andrei Kosyak, was abducted the day before by a sabotage and reconnaissance group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the zone of disengagement of forces and equipment near Zolote.
The LPR representation in the JCCC restricted the movement of patrols of the OSCE monitoring mission on a number of routes until the return of its employee from Ukrainian captivity.