Chechen fighters in Ukraine, no news on OSCE team: Donetsk PM The prime minister of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine Wednesday said he had no specific information about a team of OSCE monitors who went missing after being detained at a checkpoint two days ago amid deadly fighting between government forces and pro-Russian gunmen. He also admitted that fighters from Chechnya -- a Muslim region of Russia that once fought for its independence but is now under a Kremlin-backed strongman's control -- were enlisted in the separatist brigades. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES. REFILING TO UPDATE LEAD AND HEADLINE