Rostov-on-Don - The OSCE mission will deploy its headquarters in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov region, from where OSCE officials will go to the Russian border checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk in groups to monitor the checkpoints, the information policy department of the region's government told Interfax on Friday, July 25.
“The OSCE has set its experts a task to monitor the work of the
border and customs checkpoints Gukovo and Donetsk and the movement of
people ad cargo over the Russian-Ukrainian border,” the source said.
At a meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on Thursday, July 24,
representatives of 54 countries decided to send OSCE monitors to the
Rostov region, the source said.
Members of the OSCE Permanent Council representing the U.S., Canada
and Ukraine voted against opening a permanent office of the OSCE
monitors in the Rostov region. Nevertheless, 19 OSCE officials will
arrive in the Rostov region in early August.
According to the information policy department of the Rostov region
‘s government, the Ukrainian administration said more than once that the
militia are receiving assistance from Russia, whereas Russian Foreign
Ministry officially are blaming the Ukrainian army for opening fire on
the Russian territory. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, such
attacks have killed a man and wounded two women on the outskirts of
Russia’s Donetsk.
