Kyiv calls on Moscow to facilitate OSCE SMM access to all parts of Donbas

09:38, 19.02.2016 1 min read

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has called on Russia to help provide monitors from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) with access to all sections of the Ukrainian-Russian state border that are not controlled by Kyiv.

"The Foreign Ministry supports the SMM's monitoring activity with regard to the implementation of the package of the Minsk agreements and once again calls on the Russian Federation to take all measures to ensure mission monitors' unhindered access and freedom of movement in certain districts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, including all sections of the Ukrainian-Russian state border that are temporarily not controlled by the government of Ukraine," the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a commentary, which was circulated by the ministry's press service on Thursday.