The shelling of the village of Shanka in the Donbas, where on Wednesday he died a peaceful citizen, was conducted from the South-West direction from long range mortars 82 mm, reported in the daily report of the Special monitoring mission (SMM) of the OSCE in Ukraine.

"outside of the World and on the street 60 years of October the SMM observers examined 19 craters, based on inspection they determined, because it is the result of artillery shelling of mortars 82 mm, which was conducted from the South-West direction," according to the report.

Town Shanka in the Donbass was attacked on the evening of 24 June. The head of administration of Shanka Alexander Pelipas before said that during the shelling of the village died, a local citizen, and his wife received injuries to the health. On a subsequent day after the bombing, June 25, visited the village Authorized the Ministry of defence DND and observers of the Special monitoring mission (SMM) of the OSCE.

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 settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.

The last document is dated 12 February - in addition to the ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons and creating a security zone, obliges the Authorities of Ukraine to engage in direct dialogue with the authorized DND and LNR, for example, on the issue of conduct in local elections, entering into the Constitution of Ukraine of change, involving the decentralization of Power, as well as on the issue of legislative recognition of special status of separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ".
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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