Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) disrupted a special operation by russian Federal Security Service (FSB) aimed at the discrediting of OSCE.
Russians carried out several provocations in temporarily occupied districts of Ukraine's south and east, the SSU spokesperson Artem Dekhtyarenko reported.
"The enemy planned to make staged videos for the media to accuse the OSCE staff of alleged espionage in favor of the SSU, to compromise the Mission and question its objectivity," – he noted.
To collect "evidence", the occupiers broke into OSCE staff homes and "beat the compromising evidence out of them". Namely, in Kherson, FSB officers posed as SSU workers and forced an employee of the OSCE Mission to sign a "secret cooperation agreement".
Occupiers detained and tried to compromise several more Mission employees.
"From 16 to 23 May the fsb officers on pain of death forced the Mission employees to "testify" on video about looting their office allegedly by Ukrainian law enforcers. Although it was rushists [russian+fascist – tr.] who came and looted it five times," – Dekhtyarenko added.
Several weeks ago occupiers accused OSCE of "cooperation" with the Ukrainian army and showed "evidence" found at the "Azovstal" plant in Mariupol. Besides, in temporarily occupied Donetsk and Luhansk, the occupiers detained and put in custody the Mission employees.