OSCE Ukrainian Member Killed In Kharkiv

Helsinki, March 3: A Ukrainian member of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) has been killed as a result of a shelling attack in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, the organization said. “Maryna Fenina, a national member of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), died in shelling in Kharkiv yesterday, 1 March,” the OSCE said in a statement.

OSCE Chairman-in-Office and Foreign Minister of Poland Zbigniew Rau and OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid expressed condolences to the family and friends of the victim. “Maryna was killed while getting supplies for her family in a city that has become a war zone. In Kharkiv and other cities and towns in Ukraine, missiles, shells and rockets are hitting residential buildings and town centers, killing and injuring innocent civilians – women, men and children alike,” the OSCE said. The organization condemned the intensified shelling in urban areas and called on Russia to immediately cease hostilities.