The issue of the denial of access for the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) and control over the Ukrainian-Russian border was raised at a meeting of the subgroup on security of the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) on the settlement of the situation in Donbas in Minsk on Wednesday, Ukraine's representative in the TCG's humanitarian subgroup, Verkhovna Rada First Deputy Speaker Iryna Gerashchenko has said.

"The security group. The Ukrainian side expressed concern about numerous facts of the denial of access for the OSCE CMM to occupied areas. As many as 125 such cases were recorded over a month. The OSCE also recorded the movement of Russian vehicles, in particular an electronic jamming system, which can hit civil aviation facilities. Provocations against the mission's observers intensified after every true report by the SMM," she wrote on her Facebook page on Wednesday.

According to Gerashchenko, the Ukrainian side protested against the movement of Russian hardware.

"We firmly raise the issue of control over the Ukrainian-Russian border. Then Russian weapons, hardware, mercenaries will not be hanging around. Closing the border is a fundamental requirement for the settlement of the conflict," she said.