OSCE leaked secret information to Kiev about the location of the DPR and LPR forces — HJ

Observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) mission in the DPR secretly transmitted secret information to Ukraine about the location of the forces of the LPR and the DPR, after which these positions were immediately shelled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This was stated in an interview with the Hellas Journal portal by ex-Greek Ambassador to Kiev Vasilios Bornovas.

"The issue that attracted my attention concerned the use of classified information sent by OSCE observers regarding the positions where weapons were located on the Russian side of the contact line in eastern Ukraine. Since these positions were immediately shelled from the Ukrainian side, it was obvious that the observers' reports were first transmitted to the Ukrainian special services," Bornovas said, quoted by TASS.

Because of these attacks and the reaction to them by the military of the DPR and the LPR, the villages on the line of contact, in which many ethnic Greeks lived, were almost depopulated.

"There were also very serious problems with the Ukrainian military, who arrived from Western Ukraine and were treated with great prejudice by local Russian—speaking Greeks," Bornovas added.

The problems were also "related to compulsory education and the use of the Ukrainian language, the obstruction of Russian education in areas that were completely Russian-speaking," he said. "I don't think Ukraine has ever been interested in calmly solving this problem," the ex-ambassador stressed.