International organisations

The international community gets involved in every war, monitoring if the international law and possibly some other agreements are observed. Already at the beginning of the war in March 2014, special monitoring mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe started to operate in the Ukraine. Its task is to objectively monitor the situation and give reports. However, the reports have been more or less the same for the past six years. Sometimes, there is less gunfire, sometimes more, but it certainly continues on all the time. According to the armistice anchored in the Minsk II Protocol from the spring 2015, some types of weapons are not allowed to be used, still, the fire from these weapons continues on everyday basis.

The locals do not trust the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe much. There is not a single Ukrainian citizen among the observers, although there are dozens of citizens of Russian Federation, i.e. the state that at least adds fuel to the conflict in the Eastern Ukraine. The mission thus becomes a white hope in a geopolitical fight. The white Toyotas of the observers with their blue and white waving flags became part of the scenery for the locals, but it seems that they are unable to prevent the fire at nights.