“I am very grateful for the exceptional work of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission and the Office of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine.

They will continue to carry out their mandates without interruption,” she wrote on Twitter.

As Reuters previously reported, citing eyewitnesses, American representatives of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Donbass began to leave Donetsk in cars.

The representative office of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire stated that even if representatives of other countries leave the Donetsk SMM office, the work of the mission will not stop.

The Russian Foreign Ministry urged not to drag the OSCE SMM into the "militarist psychosis" pumped by the United States.