Special monitoring mission (SMM) of the OSCE during the day was recorded by shelling near Donetsk airport and a number of other settlements in the Donbass. The mission workers continue to face restrictions on "third parties" access to the conflict zone to monitor the implementation of the Minsk agreements, said a spokesman for SMM OSCE Michael Bociurkiw. "The SMM continued to monitor the implementation of the package of measures to implement the Minsk agreements, however, there are times when limited to our ability of observation by third parties. For 24 hours from last night continued shelling near Donetsk airport, the OSCE special monitoring mission observed yesterday several violations of the ceasefire in the area of the Town, Sand, Spartacus, " Bociurkiw said at a press conference on Thursday. at the same time Bociurkiw said that for the second consecutive day mission captures the decrease in the intensity of shelling in the area of Shirokino, although the situation in the area continues to be quite complex. 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 began more than 6 thousand people. The problem of settlement of the Ukrainian fall under negotiation in different formats, for example, at the meetings of the contact group in Minsk With the mediation of Russia and the OSCE. The next meeting of the contact group on February 12 ended with the adoption of a package of measures on execution of the Minsk agreements, involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbas with fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone. Soon after informing truce in the Donbass resumed shooting, the parties blame each other in violation of the "silence" and report that conduct only return fire.