MOSCOW/LUHANSK. Oct 28 (Interfax) - Ukraine is continuing to illegally hold a Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) observer who represents the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), Russian representative to the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) Boris Gryzlov said.
"Kyiv is continuing to hold the JCCC observer, the Luhansk representative who was criminally captured two weeks ago. OSCE [Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe] representatives have made no effort to settle the situation," Gryzlov told journalists after a TCG meeting on Wednesday.
The capture of the representative was a "gross violation of the guarantees Ukraine provided with the assistance of OSCE," he said.
Gryzlov also expressed his bewilderment at OSCE having "reacted to neither Ukraine having effectively withdrawn from the Package of Measures reinforcing the truce nor to any similar provocation."
Furthermore, Ukraine has fully blocked talks on all other issues, including on a roadmap on a comprehensive peaceful political settlement and the opening of new checkpoints to and from the Luhansk region, he said.
The next TCG meeting is due to be held on November 10, the LPR Foreign Ministry told journalists.
LPR representative Andrei Kosyak was captured by Ukrainians on October 13 while monitoring road repairs in a demilitarized zone near the village of Zolote. Ukraine says it captured a serviceman suspected of "committing a serious crime in 2010, as stipulated in Article 115 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code." His guns and ammunition were seized, it said.