OSCE still has no contact with monitors captured in Donbass

KYIV. June 3 (Interfax) - Contact with two Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) groups, which went missing in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, has not been established yet, the OSCE special monitoring mission in Ukraine said.

No changes exist and contact with these groups has not been restored, the mission press office told Interfax.

Everyone, who has any information of the location of the two groups seized, is urged to report it, the OSCE mission said.

It has been reported that the first group of OSCE monitors went missing in the Donetsk region at the border with the Luhansk region on May 26.

Contact was lost with the second group on May 29 at a checkpoint near Severodonetsk in the Luhansk region. According to the latest information, monitors were stopped by armed people.

These two monitoring groups of the OSCE mission included a total of eight people and one interpreter. The first group comprised citizens of Switzerland, Estonia, Turkey and Denmark. The information on the citizenship of the second group does not exist for now.