The detonation of the car of the OSCE SMM observers in the OPO on April 23 was not an accident, the first deputy head of the Mission, Alexander Khug.
"Probably the mine worked. The car weighing 4.5 tons was thrown by 7 meters, from the explosion it caught fire and was completely destroyed. Two observers survived, Joseph - no.
What happened is not an accident, but the result of the operation of the weapons, which there should not have been, "said Hug.
He stressed that the incident is guilty of those "who promised not to lay explosives there".
"The participants of the Minsk process promised to withdraw mines and not to lay new ones. The investigation of the incident is ongoing, a number of organizations are studying the circumstances of the incident, SMM is conducting an internal assessment, "added Hoog.