OSCE observers told about the provisions under the Mariupol
Employees of the OSCE observation mission in Ukraine on Thursday visited Mariupol city and its surroundings, where there are violent clashes between Ukrainian security forces and militias self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic (DND).
Observers visited the village of Sorokino 22 kilometers East of Mariupol, where is the state administration of Donetsk region. First it was claimed that the militia are trying to take this town by storm.
" It seems to us that the village currently does not control nor the Ukrainian Army, nor irregular, " the report said. Observers also saw the burning fields on either side of the entrance to the city. According to them, in the village of destroyed power plant, and residents were left without electricity.
Army DND 24 August offensive in the South. She at the same time attacked the village Elenovka (southern suburbs of the city of Donetsk in the direction Mariupol) and the position of the army and machardie about cities telymanovo and Novoazovsk on the border of Ukraine and Russia. On the evening of August 27 advanced tanks militia DND entered in Novoazovsk and resettles in its Western suburbs, thereby strengthening the defense of the city against a possible counter-offensive security forces.
Kyiv authorities since April of conduct in the East of Ukraine military operation directed against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat of residents of Donbas. According to the latest information from the UN, from mid April to Ukraine forcibly deprived of life, more than 2 and a half thousand civilians, about six thousand wounded.