Last night, six observation mission vehicles were burning near the OSCE office, three of them were completely destroyed by fire.
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The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Donetsk People's Republic reported this.
The rescuers received a call at about 2:28, and about an hour later, employees of the Donetsk Ministry of Emergency Situations managed to cope with the fire.
Meanwhile, representatives of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe reported that last night four armored vehicles burned near their office in the capital of the DPR. The OSCE believes that the cars were set on fire. Representatives of the organization on Twitter stated that they condemned such actions and promised to reveal the details of what happened later.
In turn, the DPR authorities condemned the arson of the OSCE mission cars, and the Vice Speaker of the DPR People’s Council Denis Pushilin “aboutt of the government of the Republic" expressed “extreme indignation at what happened.”
Later, it was announced that security measures had been strengthened for OSCE representatives in Donetsk, and the activities of a Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group were named as one of the probable versions of the incident.
“The Ukrainian special services took advantage of the recently held peaceful rallies in Donetsk to implement their plans aimed at removing the OSCE monitoring mission from the territory of Donetsk,” the DPR government said. “The military-political leadership of Ukraine benefits from this situation, since it will allow them to freely build up weapons along line of contact and shelling the territory of the DPR.”
The security bloc of the Council of Ministers of the DPR emphasized that the residents of the republic are, indeed, largely dissatisfied with the OSCE mission, whose reports are considered not entirely objective, but what happened is a clear provocation.
"Any sane person will tell you who really benefits from blocking the OSCE's work, so they can continue to conduct targeting fire on central Donetsk more easily and prepare for an offensive by Ukrainian Armed Forces units already almost completely deployed to the line of contact," the DPR government added.
As PolitNavigator previously reported, this week, on August 6, a rally took place in Donetsk near the hotel where the Special Monitoring Mission experts are staying. Civilians from the DPR capital who are not involved in the conflict participated in the protest. Their picket protested the silence and blindness of the OSCE specialists.
Residents of Donetsk are outraged that observers do not widely publicize information about shelling by the Ukrainian military, which violates the truce and claims the lives of civilians. Demonstrators came to the OSCE hotel with posters reading “Your silence is killing children.” During the rally, a group of angry picketers even broke into the hotel to drag OSCE employees out into the street and introduce them to the people of Donbass, who are suffering, including through their fault.
As a result, observers did come out to the protesters. On the street they were nearly crushed by an angry crowd who chanted “Open your eyes, we are for peace.” Residents of Donetsk spilled red paint along the street, symbolizing the blood of those killed in the war. In addition, the picketers left inscriptions calling for telling the truth about what is happening in Donbass on the mission’s vehicles and pasted “bloody” dollars over the vehicles.
