What wind to the muzzle

The armed militants of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic blocked the car of the OSCE special monitoring mission and forced to leave the district. This was reported by the press service of the organization.

The incident occurred on Friday afternoon at the village of Lukovo, 72 km south of Donetsk. OSCE observers rode along the trail of the infantry combat vehicle. The road was blocked by a camouflage jeep. Two militants under threat of weapons ordered observers to leave the district. They obeyed.

A few minutes later, another jeep blocked the observer car. "Three armed participants of the DPR left the car, in an extremely aggressive manner they sent their weapons to the SMM employees and demanded that the driver open the door," the OSCE report said. The mission employees were forced to go to the Primorskoye checkpoint, where nine DPR militants also began to threaten them. However, after 10 minutes, the OSCE observers were released.

A day earlier, the OSCE said that both sides of the armed conflict in the Donbass could not withstand the ceasefire, which, according to them, is confirmed by the constant use of the forbidden weapons in the "security zone".

The OSCE SMM was sent to Donbass in March 2014 after the circulation of the Ukrainian authorities. On May 24, the press service of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that the leaders of the Norman Four countries supported the deployment of the OSCE armed mission in the Donbass. "The leaders of Ukraine, France, Germany and Russia expressed support for the deployment of the OSCE police mission in the Donbass and the start of consultations on this issue," the report said

On May 26, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrov, said that the LPR and the DPR authorities will not go the introduction of international peacekeeping forces in the Donbass . "This is not provided for by the Minsk agreements. This will never go to this, and with the Donbass, in accordance with the Minsk agreements, it is necessary to coordinate all the steps to settle without exception," Lavrov said.

On June 1, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Konstantin Eliseev said that Kiev is “clear records of all telephone conversations” that contain the consent of the Norman Four to place the OSCE armed police mission. “The only thing I note is that the leaders really did not discuss the details, since experts and experts should already do this in order to develop and provide relevant proposals for approval of the heads of the Norman Four countries,” Eliseev said.

The Russian Foreign Ministry denies the fact of Moscow’s consent to place a militarized mission in the Donbass. According to the deputy head of the department, Grigory Karasin, Russia "did not give such consent," adding that in this case "the verbosity of the Kyiv strategists only interferes with the case."

On June 4, Lavrov specified that Russia agrees only to equip observers with personal weapons . “The conversation at the highest level ultimately revolved around the fact that it was necessary to increase the efficiency of the OSCE mission. Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke in order to increase, first of all, the potential of this mission on the demarcation line,” Lavrov said. “We also said that if it would help the matter, to agree that this additional group of observers will control the line of distinction and scene of the screening heavy weapons, had the right to wear personal weapons. "

However, according to the minister, the weapons of observers are rejection of many OSCE members. "The experience of such measures through the OSCE and the UN shows that very often unarmed observers are more protected than in the presence of personal weapons," Lavrov noted.