Lavrov offered to give pistols to OSCE observers in Donbass

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia is ready to agree with the proposal to arm the OSCE observers in the Donbass, but only with personal weapons - pistols. According to Lavrov, pistols can be issued to observers who control places where heavy weapons are located, removed from the line of contact between the parties to the conflict under the terms of the Minsk agreements.

Ukraine insists on the deployment of an OSCE armed police mission in the Donbass, which, in particular, would control the border with Russia. Lavrov said that such an agreement does not exist.

Ukrainians want this all the time, but they have been explained many times that there is no amnesty and a law on a special status that will really guarantee additional rights to these territories, it is very difficult to count on Donetsk and Luhansk agreeing to do in advance what, according to the Minsk agreements, should complete the political process, not be its precondition.…>

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• On June 1, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Konstantin Eliseev said that Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to the deployment of an international police mission in the Donbass. “We have clear records of all telephone conversations that contain the consent of the President of Russia,” Eliseev said.
• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation denied Eliseev's words. “The verbosity of the Kyiv strategists only interferes with the matter,” said Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin.
• The OSCE Monitoring Mission has been working in Donbass since 2014. In particular, international observers regularly publish reports on ceasefire violations.