The SSU has established that russian special services had carried out a series of provocations in the temporarily occupied areas of Southern and Eastern Ukraine.

The enemy planned to prepare staged media coverage to accuse OSCE staff of allegedly spying for the SSU, discredit the Mission, and question its objectivity.

To gather ‘evidence’, invaders illegally broke into the homes of OSCE staff and beat information out of them.

In the temporarily occupied Kherson, FSB officers, posing as SSU officers, forced an employee of the OSCE Monitoring Mission to sign a ‘confidential cooperation agreement’ and filmed this.

In another episode, occupiers detained several Mission employees and tried to discredit them.

And on May 16-23, FSB officers, threatening to kill, forced Mission staff to ‘testify’ on camera about the alleged burglary at their office by Ukrainian law enforcement. Although, it was the ruscists who on 5 occasions had come and robbed the office before that.