Special OSCE Monitoring mission captures the ceasefire in the village Shirokino Donetsk region, as well as on the segment from Donetsk to Mariupol, said Deputy head of SMM OSCE in Ukraine Alexander hug.

"As you know, the first item of the Minsk agreement of 12 February is a complete ceasefire, and our Patrol confirmed the ceasefire," said Hg at a press conference on Wednesday.

He said that today the Patrol of the OSCE mission was carried out in the territory of the village Shirokino, as well as on the state border of Ukraine and the Russian Federation. According to his statement, the Patrol went to the Novoazovsk and stopped at the point of crossing the border of Ukraine and the Russian Federation." throughout our patrol when we drove Novoazovsk and went back to Mariupol, both sides adhered to the ceasefire, attacks, " said the hug.

"The patrol that we had today with our team from Donetsk, as well as with authorized common center coordination and monitoring of the Ukrainian and Russian sides, It is the first step to de-escalate tensions in the region ", - He noted.


dialogues " channel four ", held on 12 February, came amid a sharp aggravation of the situation in the Donbass, provoked by the Ukrainian security forces, who, having increased strength, began to storm the position of the militia. Following the meeting, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany have taken a set of measures involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbass from February fifteen, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone.

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