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2 of July, 12:31

The OSCE mission has started work on fixing the damage from the shelling in the village Shanka in the Donbass, told reporters the Commissioner of the Ministry of defence self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic.

on Thursday Authorised the Ministry of defence DND arrived in Shankou to explore places of attacks. The Deputy commander of the headquarters of the militia DND Eduard Bacurin stated that the shelling of the village at night began after the announcement of the demilitarization of Shirokino and were fired from the guns of a caliber of 120 millimeters.

"Authorized OSCE currently working in the locality of Shanka. They fix destructions and traces of explosions of ammunition fired from Ukrainian positions last night, " said Commissioner of the Ministry of defence DND.

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 ".


The situation in the Donbass remains restless. Regular attacks are subjected to Kuibyshev territory of Donetsk, the Donetsk airport, the Village Lugansk, Gorlovka and other towns. Militia DND and LNR state that the Ukrainian Military continues to pull to the frontline heavy weapons, including systems of volley fire " Grad ". Ukrainian security forces, for their part, reported that the Minsk agreements prohibited weapons used by the Militia. Development of the situation in the South-East of Ukraine read

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