Russia accuses the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe of helping Ukraine
Russia has accused the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe of clearly siding with Ukraine in the conflict in the east of the country.
"The spirit and formulation of the OSCE Charter have been destroyed," Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a televised press conference today, Thursday.
Lavrov noted that before the war broke out last February, the organization's monitors in the Donetsk region ignored and in some cases helped increase the Ukrainian army's attacks on Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.
"Facts have been discovered that the OSCE participated in directing fire on Donetsk and Luhansk," he said.
He added that evidence of this was found after the observers were expelled.
The mission of the organization in Ukraine was to try to separate and separate the conflicting parties in Donbass, and to monitor the cease-fire, which has been approved since 2014, when Russia annexed the Crimea peninsula.
It is noteworthy that at the end of last February, after the start of the war in Ukraine, the Organization for Security and Cooperation was forced to end its mission and withdraw observers from the war zone.
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