The mandate of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission expired on 31 March 2022. Due to the lack of consensus on the extension of the work, the OSCE will take immediate steps to close the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine. This is stated in the organization's statement..

" We have explored all possible options through political dialogue with the participating States in order to achieve an extension of the mandate of the Special Monitoring Mission, but the position of the Russian Federation left us no choice but to take steps to close the Mission,” said OSCE Chairman Zbigniew Rau.

At the same time, he assured that the Polish Chairmanship will continue to interact with the participating States to explore alternatives for the future role of the OSCE in Ukraine..

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The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine began its work on March 21, 2014 based on a request from the Government of Ukraine to the OSCE and a consensus decision of all 57 OSCE participating States. The SMM is an unarmed civilian mission that operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in all regions of Ukraine. Its main tasks are to impartially and objectively observe and report on the situation in Ukraine, as well as to promote dialogue between all parties to the conflict..