KIEV: The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said Sunday one of its staff was killed after an observer mission patrol vehicle hit a landmine in rebel-held east Ukraine.
It marked the first loss for the security body’s Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in Ukraine since Europe’s only war began more than three years ago.
“Tragic news from Ukraine: SMM patrol drove on mine. One OSCE patrol member killed,” Austrian foreign minister and the OSCE’s current chairman Sebastian Kurz wrote on Twitter.
The OSCE mission added later that “two members have been taken to hospital for further examination” but did not give details …read more
Source: theSun
