The LPR Head Leonid Pasechnik has banned the activities of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in the LPR.
"OSCE SMM members voluntarily remain in the LPR and keep building up an unfavourable image of the DPR, LPR and Russian Federation," he told journalists.
"As the Head of the LPR, I have decided to ban the OSCE SMM activities in the LPR starting from April 30. It means that all the members of the SMM have to leave the Republic. All the relevant instructions for ministries and agencies have been issued," he said.
Earlier, the State Security has detained a member of the SMM on suspicion of high treason.
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in Donbass to protect residents of the region from Ukrainian aggression and called on Ukrainian troops to leave the combat zone. Earlier, the Heads of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, Leonid Pasechnik and Denis Pushilin, requested Russian President Vladimir Putin to provide military assistance.
The Ukrainian government launched the so-called anti-terrorist operation against Donbass in April 2014. The members of the Contact Group have announced ceasefire more than 20 times since the autumn of 2014. Kiev forces regularly violated the truce opening fire with large caliber artillery, mortars and tank guns which were to have been withdrawn from the contact line under the accords. *t
