According to the Ministry of State Security on Friday, an employee of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) captured in the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) admitted to transferring secret military material to foreign intelligence agency officers,

In a statement, the Ministry stated, "As part of the investigation of a criminal case initiated ... against an LPR resident from the OSCE staff, the Ministry of State Security obtained a confession from the detainee."

According to the statement, the employee in question, Petrov Mikhail Yurievich, "transmitted confidential information in the military sphere to the representatives of foreign intelligence services."

The Ministry added that "in the course of operational and investigative measures, information was obtained about the involvement of persons from among the Ukrainian armed forces military personnel in organizing and committing a car bombing that resulted in the death of an OSCE Special Monitoring Mission employee in April 2017. The investigation established that according to the plan of the armed forces command, the organized terrorist act was aimed at the physical elimination of a Russian citizen from the staff of the mission."