First time from March 2015 the representatives of The Special Monitoring Mission OSCE could get on captured by insurgents checkpoint “Izvarino”, located on Ukrainian-Russian border. According to observers’ words they were stopped thrice on the site between Krasnodon and Izvarino during the 40 minutes. The representatives of so-called “border service of LPR” demanded that transport of the observers should go with their escort.

The representatives of OSCE have noticed new layer of asphalt on the road surface on the checkpoint and also 50 civil cars, 3 trucks and 3 buses with Ukrainian and Russian numbers, which were waiting for the leaving on the territory of Russian Federation.

We would remind that insurgents have been controlling checkpoint “Izvarino” from the June, 2014.