This report is for media and the general public. The SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the provisions of the Minsk Protocol and Memorandum. The situation in Luhansk and Donetsk remained tense. Police in Odessa told the SMM about discovered explosives and one RPG in one of the wagons of a passenger train coming from Luhansk. On 21 October the SMM met in Luhansk with the “Lugansk People’s Republic” (“LPR”) “chairman of the supreme council”, Aleksey Karyakin, who, despite there being no such stipulation in the Minsk Protocol, insisted that Ukrainian forces should withdraw from the power plant in …read more
Source: OSCE
