... to 660
and, together with other international and local staff, to 1,270 over 7 years of conflict. The SMM contingent has been reinforced with modern equipment, including unmanned aerial vehicles. Table 1 clearly shows that the monitoring mission in Ukraine is many times larger than the contingents involved in conflicts in the neighbouring states.
Table 1
. The size of OSCE monitoring missions, including locally hired staff
Ukrainian crisis
South Ossetian crisis
Transnistrian crisis
Nagorno-Karabakh crisis
Size (largest and smallest value)
100–1270
8–183
8–53
6–17 (Office of the Personal Representative of the Chair)
Source: Compiled by the author from OSCE open data.
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