An observer of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) was killed in an accident in Kramatorsk (Donetsk region) on Thursday morning, the press service of the Mission told Interfax-Ukraine.

"SMM confirms that this morning one of our observers became a participant in an accident. The observer was going along Kramatorsk by taxi. As a result of an accident, he was killed on the scene," the press service told the agency on Thursday.

Earlier, Russian media reported referring to Luhansk, that representative of the OSCE SMM in Ukraine, Vitaliy Zara, had been tragically killed in Kramatorsk.