The Russian Foreign Ministry raised alarm on Sunday over certain nations' intention to move the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) monitoring officers to Ukraine.

This special mission, according to Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, "deliberately pulls itself into the Washington-driven military mania and is used as an instrument for possible provocation."

The Russian envoy implored the OSCE leadership to cease any attempts to subvert its work and, in her judgment, to keep it out of the nasty political games being played around her.

“We start from the premise that, in conditions of artificial tension, the mission’s surveillance activities, in full compliance with its mandate, are more in demand than ever,” she stressed.

The Western suggestion comes amid tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine's domestic situation and claims of Moscow's claimed invasion of that nation, which the Kremlin has consistently rejected.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov informed US Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the phone on Saturday that Washington's propaganda campaign on Russia's claimed aggression against Ukraine had aggressive intentions.

Lavrov promised that such discourse encourages Ukrainian authorities to undermine the Minsk Protocol for a peaceful resolution of the Donbass conflict, as well as damaging efforts to solve the situation via force.