OSCE SMM did not come under fire in Luhansk region

17:27, 24.09.2014 1 min read

The OSCE special monitoring mission has announced that its monitors have not come under fire in Luhansk region recently.

"Media advisory: In response to media inquiries we can say our monitors in Luhansk Oblast were not fired upon earlier this week," the special monitoring mission tweeted.

Earlier on Wednesday spokesman for the information and analytical center of the National Security and Defense Council Andriy Lysenko said members of illegal armed groups opened fire at a car of the OSCE international monitoring mission on the bridge near the village of Schastia not far from Luhansk.

"A raiding group of terrorists shot at a car of the OSCE international mission on the bridge over the Siversky Donets River near the village of Schastia," Lysenko said at a briefing in Kyiv.