DISINFO: OSCE reports on Donbas do not correspond to reality
SUMMARY
Reports of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation (OSCE) in Donbas do not correspond to reality. The OSCE does not want to see the real picture. Its monitors have not yet visited the village of Oleksandrivske, where a child was killed on 2 April in a Ukrainian drone attack. Not only does the OSCE fail to perform its duties, but it also tries to enforce Ukraine's position on the Donetsk separatists.
RESPONSE
This is a recurring disinformation attempt from pro-Kremlin media to accuse the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) of being biased towards Ukraine and withholding true information about the real state of affairs in the Donbas war zone.
In reality, SMM officials issue reports on a daily basis about the current situation in the war zone. One of the SMM’s main tasks is to observe and report in an impartial and objective way on the situation in Ukraine, and to facilitate dialogue among all parties to the crisis.
The fact that OSCE monitors do not visit certain zones in Donbas does not mean that they are partial to either side of the Donbas war. However, an SMM patrol did on 6 April visit the scene of the death of a five-year-old boy in the separatist-controlled village of Oleksandrivske. Pro-Moscow separatists said that the boy was killed on 2 April in a Ukrainian drone attack. On close scrutiny, facts presented in Russian media reports about the killing seem fragmented and unsubstantiated. Ukraine has claimed that its troops were not responsible for the attack.
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