Therefore, the mission can leave Ukraine in March. This was on Monday, January 22, in Mariupol during a meeting with representatives of the local community, among whom journalists predominated, said the first deputy head of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, Alexander Khug.

He also said that to continue the work of the OSCE in Ukraine, a joint decision of all the members.

The mission began its work even before the outbreak of the conflict in the east of the country on March 21, 2014, at the invitation of the Ukrainian side, and this decision was supported by 57 member countries.

Since then, the change in the Mandate was only relative to the number of observers, and the Minsk Agreements do not in any way affect the activities of the OSCE, "he explained..

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, the first deputy head of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission, Alexander Hug plans to visit the Donetsk and Luhansk region on January 21-25.