OSCE to increase number of its monitors in Ukraine by January 15, 2015.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Special Monitoring Mission speaker said that the organization would increase the number of its monitors in Ukraine to 500 people by January 15, 2015. He also noted that two thirds of them would work in Donbas. Botsyurkiv said that currently there are 361 international OSCE observers in Ukraine, and 221 of them work in Donbas. "At the beginning, there were 100 people in the mission. Currently, there are already 361 international observers from 40 countries. 221 of them are based in Donetsk and Lugansk. The others work throughout in Ukraine - in Lviv, Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk," TASS reports, referring to the representative. Formerly, the increase in the number of observers was announced by the head of the OSCE special monitoring mission in Ukraine, Ertugrul Apakan, in mid-December.