Special monitoring mission (SMM) of the OSCE in Ukraine has spread into the night on Thursday's special report on the situation around under the control of Kiev Marinka South-West of Donetsk, where on Wednesday morning, the fighting unfolded.
the report says that since Tuesday evening, the SMM observed from your point of 14 kilometres from Marinka movement of a large number of heavy weapons of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic in the direction of contact line near Marinka.
among equipment, fixed SMM, were tanks, 122 mm gun, a column of armored personnel carriers, security forces trucks. In the early hours of June 3, observers recorded the shelling from artillery and systems of volley fire from the positions of the DPR. Also observers that were in the center of Donetsk heard several outgoing volleys from jet guns and about 100 rounds of heavy artillery aimed in the direction of Donetsk.
in period from seven to 8 am the SMM patrol was in 6-9 kilometers East of Marinka and saw 7 T-64 tanks deployed in the Western direction and heard outgoing volleys of reactive systems fire. Likewise at 6 a.m. the drone of the OSCE recorded intensive shelling of the intersection of routes 3, 5 kilometres South-West of Marinka, and in fifteen. 30 - four self-propelled 152-mm howitzers "acacia" 9 kilometres South-East of the city
"Between 10. 45 and 12. Eleven SMM made several attempts to contact senior representatives of the DNR, including the Prime Minister, the speaker of Parliament, Minister of defense and chief of General staff to come to a common opinion about stop fighting around Marinka. They were either unavailable or didn't want to talk to SMM ", - is informed in the report.
fifteen. 00 SMM received a letter from the Ministry of defense of Ukraine, who declared that the APU will be placed on the contact line of heavy weapons to deal with "real threat" posed by the fighting in Marinka, which began, according to them, at 6am. Then Ukrainian officials have officially realized that it had used heavy weapons.
fifteen. 00 authorized Russia to the centre on coordination and control (SCCC) told the SMM that at 17. 00 there will come a ceasefire in the area of Marinci. 21. 00 he confirmed that the situation remains calm, says the report.
Also on Wednesday evening as Authorized security forces and the self-proclaimed DND confirmed to the SMM that Marinka remains under the control of Kiev.
before Wednesday, the Ukrainian security forces told that the militia advancing on their positions near Marinka and Krasnogorovka near Donetsk, Military repel the attacks. The self-proclaimed authorities of the DNI called the message of Kiev speculation. The head of the Ministry of defence DND Vladimir Kononov said that the Ukrainian Military on Wednesday began shelling across the front line, three militia members were killed. As a result of shelling of Donetsk injured several dozen civilians. DNR considers the actions of the Ukrainian security forces to disrupt the Minsk agreements.
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