Observers special monitoring mission (SMM) of the OSCE in Ukraine last weekend recorded an increase in the number of attacks in Donetsk, for example, in the vicinity of the airport.

According to the daily report of the OSCE, on 20 and 21 June in Donetsk was recorded more than five explosions of mortar shells and artillery shells on both sides of the conflict. Also refers to the aggravation of the situation in Mariupol, where the SMM observed more than 170 explosions.

The SMM Also visited the area for the storage of heavy weapons, controlled by the Ukrainian armed forces. The report highlights that one of the sites disappeared four self-propelled howitzers. On the second ground SMM found fifteen anti-tank mines, which, as explained to the representatives of the OSCE, the commander of the Ukrainian military power, will be deployed.

The OSCE mission visited 3 area for the storage of heavy weapons controlled by the DNR. One of them was not 2 self-propelled howitzers, the other four were found MLRS "Grad" with charged missiles. Hmm stressed that the placement of the weapons on all of the sites does not violate the Minsk agreement on the separation line.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict were about 6, 5 thousand people. The problem of settlement of the Ukrainian fall under negotiation in different formats, for example, at the meetings of the contact group in Minsk with the mediation of Russia and the OSCE.
June 3 in the area of Marinci has been a serious battle, the victims of which, according to the UN, became 34. The military has accused the militia in the attack, the same called statements of Kiev speculation. Authorized self-proclaimed republics said that the Ukrainian Military continues to pull to the contact line of heavy equipment and jet systems of volley fire, and the intensity of the attacks increased. The authorities DND and LNR pushing that War had brought heavy weapons to a safe distance, regulated by the Minsk agreements. Read

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