The authorities of Ukraine are so convinced that regular units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are fighting against their army in the Donbass that nothing seems to be able to dissuade them. Therefore, they attacked the deputy head of the OSCE mission, Alexander Hug, who said that there were no Russian soldiers in eastern Ukraine. A sharp lunge against a European official was made by the first vice-speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Irina Gerashchenko. "I sincerely regret that ... the mission (Hug) as deputy chairman of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission concludes with this apparently flawed and unsuccessful statement. Hopefully, it’s just a poorly worded phrase and not a position, ”the deputy wrote on her Facebook page.. "It is worth recalling to Mr. Hugu that the mission led by Mr. (Ertugrul) Apakan and him weekly in Donbass records and reflects in its official reports the modern Russian radar and other equipment, tanks, other gun. Russian. Modern. Not soviet.

You can’t buy one in the bazaar and don’t draw the Russian flag instead of the asterisk ". She thanked the "courageous and honest" staff of the OSCE mission, "who are not blind and deaf and dumb, but everyone sees, fixes and honestly writes about it in their reports". A wave of anger swept through the Ukrainian political elite after the release of an interview with Alexander Hug in Foreign Policy magazine. In it, the diplomat said that the OSCE did not see direct evidence of the Russian presence in eastern Ukraine.. Hug, in particular, said that the mission members saw people in jackets with identification marks of the Russian Federation in eastern Ukraine, but added that “such jackets can be bought everywhere”. The journal later deleted this statement.. The publication reported that this was done because "it did not convey the point of view", which Hug wanted to designate.

Ukraine has repeatedly accused the Russian Federation of interfering in its internal affairs and called our country one of the parties to the conflict in the Donbas.. The Russian Foreign Ministry called these allegations "public unsubstantiated insinuations". Moscow has repeatedly stated that it is not a party to the internal Ukrainian conflict and is not involved in the events in the southeast, and is interested in Ukraine’s overcoming the political and economic crisis..