Russian intervention in Ukraine is what experts call a "low-intensity war". In 2015, the pro-Russian armed forces carried out the bloody seizure of the large railway junction Debalcevo - since then the front line has nowhere shifted anywhere, writes Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Konrad Schuller.

"Many factors," the journalist notes, "influenced the deterrence of the war: these were the anti-Russian sanctions, the strengthening of the Ukrainian army, and the Minsk agreements with the armistice conditions stipulated in them (which are never respected but recognized by all parties to the conflict), and others Deterrence tools - such as the OSCE Observer Mission and the Ukrainian-Russian Joint Center for Monitoring and Coordination (SCCC) ".

Now this tool is in danger: Russia announced its intention to withdraw its contingent from the SCCC, reports FAZ. "The Russian Foreign Ministry argues this decision by the fact that the Ukrainian side allegedly" intentionally "creates for the Russian military" a tense situation from a moral and psychological point of view, "and also restricts freedom of movement".

"The withdrawal of the Russian military is for the OSCE (. ) a serious problem, the article says.. - Patrols of mission staff can move in especially dangerous areas near the front line only if they are escorted by Russian and Ukrainian military personnel from the SSCC ".

As noted in the interview with the publication of the first deputy head of the OSCE observation mission, Alexander Hug, the withdrawal of the Russian military may "soon lead to the fact that we will be able to carry out certain activities only to a limited extent". According to Hug, with the help of SCCC, it was possible to coordinate regularly actions with both sides of the conflict. The biggest fears Hug now associates with the fact that "the withdrawal of the Russian military will negatively affect the implementation of the ceasefire regime as a whole," the journalist.