MOSCOW. Feb 18 (Interfax) - The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Special Monitoring Mission (OSCE SMM) in Ukraine routinely tends to downplay Kyiv's responsibility for various incidents in Donbas in its reports, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.
"As the Special Monitoring Mission has reported on the latest events, the events that have happened over the past few days, we've noticed yet again that it's only mentioned a large number of instances of firing and a large degree of damage, but it hasn't specified who chiefly opened fire and where most of the damage is," Lavrov said at a press conference in Moscow.
Russia will be striving to make sure that "information specifying the initiators of ceasefire violations and the targets fired upon by the relevant forces is regularly presented to the OSCE members," he said.
"What we've seen thus far is that the Special Monitoring Mission has been trying hard to somehow downplay facts indicating the Ukrainian Armed Forces' responsibility," Lavrov said.