Militants from self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic confess to stealing OSCE vehicles

The Kremlin-backed  Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) terrorist group has stolen OSCE vehicles and intends to provide them to the Russian military

Andriy Marochko, militant of the so-called people's militia of the LPR group, made the statement, local Donbas media report.

According to the terrorist, the armored vehicles will be used, in particular, for combat missions in the occupied territory of the Luhansk region.

Some of the vehicles were seized as part of the so-called criminal case on suspicion of "espionage" against OSCE employees.

Last week, terrorists opened a "case" against an OSCE employee, a British citizen. Earlier, the "court" of the group sentenced a resident of the occupied Luhansk region Maksym Petrov, who worked as a translator in the Luhansk office of the OSCE SMM, to 13 years in prison for "treason.”

On January 16, at the checkpoint near the occupied Izvaryne town, Luhansk region, car carriers with the OSCE inscription were spotted. The convoy was moving from Russia towards Luhansk. The OSCE stated that neither its representatives nor its vehicles are currently in Donbas.

• North Macedonian Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani, who recently assumed the post of OSCE chairman, arrived in Ukraine on January 16. He visited Borodianka, Kyiv region. At a meeting with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, he also discussed human rights violations in the occupied territories of Ukraine and humanitarian support.