Russia and Germany on Friday urged the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe to more than double the number of its observers in Ukraine to 1,000, Moscow said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his German counterpart Franck-Walter Steinmeier "called on the OSCE to make a quick decision on extending the mandate of its special monitoring mission and ramping up its size to 1,000 observers," the foreign ministry in Moscow said.