KYIV, Oct 17 - The Organization for Security and Cooperation on Europe has suspended its monitoring mission in eastern Ukraine following protests close to its headquarters in separatist-controlled Donetsk, the chief monitor mentioned on Sunday, Reuters reported.

About 200 pro-Russian protesters confronted OSCE screens on Saturday to demand the discharge of a insurgent officer captured by the Ukrainian army final week. The mission had confronted earlier protests organized by Moscow-backed separatists, however this time demonstrators appeared to dam the doorway to the resort the place the screens are primarily based.

“Because of our safety concerns and because of our safety rules and considerations we suspended our operations,” Yaşar Halit Çevik advised Reuters, although he added that the screens had not but felt threatened by the protesters.