Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Viacheslav Kyrylenko notes that the statement of the already former First Deputy Head of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM), Alexander Hug, that he does not consider Russia to be an aggressor, means that during his term of office here he adhered to the Russian point of view on "internal conflict in Ukraine."

"What kind of monitoring is it when they've seen Russians but don't recognize Russian aggression? Absurd!" Kyrylenko wrote on Twitter on Monday.