OSCE: situation around Donetsk airport and Shirokino " tense "
Another report of the Special OSCE monitoring mission in Ukraine, distributed on the last working day of the week, characterizes the position on Thursday the situation around the Donetsk airport and the village of Shirokino (near Mariupol, South of Donetsk region) As " intense ".
According to the report, during the day on Thursday, observers recorded From vantage point at the station of Donetsk 59 explosions around the airport, adequate fire mortars and rocket-propelled grenades and fire from small arms small. From their vantage points in the area of Shirokino been documented 147 explosions.
the report also notes multi-kilometer queue at checkpoints across the line of contact in the Donetsk region, which became fresh of the rules pass, adopted by the government of Ukraine on June 16.
"The soldiers of the military power of Ukraine at the checkpoint said the SMM that the intersection (the contact line) because of the new procedures can take up to 24 hours. Hmm didn't see any toilets or access to water, and also noticed that some of the people in the queue were significantly dissatisfied with the situation, " reads the report.
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 the meeting in Minsk of the contact group, which Since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.