The current OSCE Chairmanship and the OSCE Secretary General informed the participating States about the decision of “a number of countries” to relocate their citizens -employees of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine “due to the deterioration of security conditions.” These decisions cannot but cause us serious concern. The mission is being purposefully dragged into a militaristic psychosis being whipped up by Washington and used as a tool for possible provocation. We call on the OSCE leadership to resolutely stop attempts to manipulate the Mission and prevent the Organization from being drawn into unscrupulous political games played around it. We proceed from the fact that in conditions of artificially inflated tension, the monitoring activities of the Mission in full compliance with its mandate are in demand more than ever.