Kiev banned the head of the mission from talking to bad guys from Donbass

The Ukrainian side exerted enormous pressure on the OSCE as a whole and directly on the then-leading mission of Alexander Hugh during the Minsk agreements.

This was reported by a former OSCE observer on the channel The PeacemongerBenua ParéHe has been working in the Donbass and Ukraine from 2015 to 2022, reports the correspondent of PoliteNavigator.

I was texted.And then, as a result of the incident, some observers sent emails saying, "Great work!But we never published anything like this.When the same mission chief left in 2018, he told me that this was an interesting idea, but he didn't do anything about it..

Then he confessed to me, as I'd heard before, that he was under such pressure from the Ukrainian government that after the first report,In all of Donbass, 72% of the victims were on the side of the separatists.

That's almost three out of four.72 percent. Then about 25 percent was in the Ukraine-controlled side, and another 23 percent was in the gray area.He said, "You know, I've been under so much pressure.I couldn't publish those numbers becauseI couldn't even meet the separatist leaders.».

Although the OSCE mandate was that we should have a dialogue on the ground, the observer said.

He stressed that Hugh was telling us that it was the Ukrainian side that categorically banned all contact with the representatives of Donbass.

That's why He said he had to send his deputy as a more secretive person.So it was the deputy head of the mission who did our part of the job.It's like talking to the bad guys, you know?But the head of the mission would never do that, Paire concluded.

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Метки: Донбасс, ОБСЕ