OSCE monitors have stopped patrols after the death of his employee
After the explosion of the car of the Special monitoring mission of the OSCE on Sunday, April 23, all units of the organization were returned to base.
This was at the briefing said the Deputy Chairman of the OSCE SMM Alexander hug, answering a question of journalists, transfers “Ukrainian truth”.
“After the incident all patrols were returned to base. Today, the vast majority, if not all of our patrols were cancelled”, – said Hg.
However, he added that on Tuesday, the patrols will be partially restored.
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“Tomorrow, we partially restore the work and will return to normal operation when you find out all the circumstances of the incident. Now monitoring the situation via the camera, and from 12 locations, which are our observers,” – he explained.
Earlier the BBC reported that the mission will conduct its own internal investigation into the incident. According to him, in 2015 SMM 183 in danger.
We will remind, on April 23, in the explosion of the car of the OSCE near Prishib village in the occupied territory of the Luhansk region killed one member of the mission, two more got wounds. The mission said that six patrol moved in two armoured vehicles when the explosion occurred.
People’s Deputy of Ukraine and member of the Board of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko said that the deceased was a citizen of great Britain Joseph stone. Agency Reuters citing the Austrian foreign Ministry reported that the victim worker, the OSCE was a U.S. citizen.
Also the explosion was shell-shocked citizen of Germany Willow Gmelin. She was taken to a hospital in Lugansk, where she was provided medical assistance.