The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe said on Friday it had lost contact with a second four-member international team in restive eastern Ukraine.
The Vienna-based security body said it had not heard from its team in the industrial region of lugansk since Thursday evening when it was stopped “by armed men” at a roadblock in the town of Severodonetsk. “The team was comprised of four international monitors and a Ukrainian translator,” the OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission for Ukraine said in a statement posted on Facebook.