26. Urges the Russian Federation to stop sponsoring terrorist activities in Ukraine through the inflow of fighters, money, and weapons across the non-Government controlled segment of the Ukrainian-Russian state border, and to terminate all support for illegal armed formations in certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine that engage in acts of terrorism in Ukraine; 27. Calls on the Russian Federation to revoke its decisions on the recognition of so-called “documents” (passports, driving licences, birth certificates etc.) issued by illegal entities in certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine and on the full circulation of Russian currency in the temporarily occupied areas of Donbas region of Ukraine, and to return seized Ukrainian local, state, and private economic entities into Ukraine’s jurisdiction; 28. Calls on the Russian Federation to ensure the withdrawal of its armed formations, military equipment, and mercenaries from the territory of certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine under monitoring of the OSCE, as well as disarmament of all illegal armed formations; 29. Urges the Russian Federation to withdraw its objection to the expansion of the OM operation to other Russian border checkpoints on the border adjacent to certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, as well as 24/7 monitoring between these checkpoints; 30. Calls on the OSCE participating States to introduce OSCE permanent monitoring and verification on the Ukrainian-Russian state border with establishment of the security zone in the border areas of Ukraine and the Russian Federation; 31. Supports providing the necessary resources to enhance OSCE SMM and OM capabilities, in particular through the use of technical surveillance equipment, UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) and satellite imageries; 32. Underlines that full, permanent, and unimpeded access of the OSCE SMM to the Government-uncontrolled segment of the Ukrainian-Russian state border, combined with the strengthened international security presence in certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, are needed to ensure the permissive security environment necessary to hold legitimate local elections in accordance with the Ukrainian legislation, relevant OSCE standards and under proper OSCE/ODIHR monitoring; 33. Encourages further consultations to reach an agreement on the deployment of the Police Mission to certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine; 34. Calls on the Russian Federation to strictly abide by the norms and principles of international law, OSCE principles and commitments, and the Minsk Agreements, and to immediately release Oleg Sentsov, Oleksandr Kolchenko, Mykola Karpyuk, Stanislav Klyh, Roman Sushchenko and other Ukrainian citizens who are illegally detained in the Russian Federation, as well as to ensure their safe return to Ukraine; 35. Encourages the OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Institutions and participating States to make efforts and use all instruments available to facilitate the release of all abducted and illegally detained Ukrainian citizens who have become political prisoners in Russia; 33

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