The number of people crossing the Russian-Ukrainian border on the border of the Russian Federation " Donetsk " and " Gukovo "dropped last week with 7523 up 6874 people a day, according to the OSCE monitoring on the Russian border.

Nevertheless, the mission recorded 518 border crossings " people in clothing military-style " on both the border, mainly from Ukraine to the Russian Federation. Among them were wounded and the sick.

" on both border the mission did not observe military movements, excluding machines of the border service of the Russian Federation ", - reported in the weekly mission report, published by the OSCE on Wednesday night.

From conversations observers from crossing the border, it follows that " there is still a General impression that the situation has become more tense, " according to the report.

Crossing the border on both the border was last week, 35% of the total number of border crossings in the Rostov region of the Russian Federation, say observers.


numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. They were the response of local residents to violent change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law granting Russian the status of regional language.

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