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RIA Novosti reported. The claim refers to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Special Monitoring Mission, a group of international observers who have monitored the conflict in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region since 2014. Observers were initially stationed on both sides of the line of contact, as well as on the borders between Russia and the two proxy states it set up inside Ukraine — the Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic. After the Minsk II peace agreement was signed in February 2015, OSCE SMM monitors observed what crossed those borders, as well as logged any ceasefire violations.RIA Novosti's claim that "Ukrainian nationalists" seized OSCE SMM vehicles is false. The OSCE SMM reported no such incident, and most of its personnel have been mostly evacuated from Ukraine in the wake of Russia's all-out invasion of the country.The Mission completed the evacuation activities of most international mission members following the 25 February decision
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