Who we are

The Mission is composed of international staff from OSCE participating States and unarmed, civilian monitors; they are supported in their work by local staff from Ukraine. Teams of monitors work on a shift basis to ensure ground presence 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Mission’s Head Office is in Kyiv; monitors have been deployed to Kherson, Odessa, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Chernivtsi, and Luhansk.