The OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier on the first day of the week said that the parties to the conflict to comply with the agreement on stopping the fire in the village of Shirokino, of key importance in the Ukrainian crisis, and tried to convince "a good chance for peace" in the country. The village Shirokino is currently one of the hotspots of Donbass. It is located on the shore of the Azov sea between the cities of Mariupol (controlled security forces) and Novoazovsk (controlled by the militia DND). In early February Shirokino was occupied by the Azov battalion of the Ukrainian machardie. Since then, the two sides continue in this area of so-called artillery and mortar duels. "at the moment there is a good chance for peace, and we are obliged to exert as much effort as we can. However, there is always a risk of recurrence (conflict - ed.)", - said the head of the OSCE AFP during his visit to Vilnius. Zannier said that peace is necessary to solve a number of problems, However, the situation has improved in comparison With those observed in the conflict area a few weeks ago. He has supplemented his words by the fact that by the beginning of this summer special monitoring mission (SMM) of the OSCE in Ukraine will increase the number of its observers at least another 100 people. Currently there are nearly five hundred participants in the SMM. 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. dialogues " channel four ", held on 12 February came amid a sharp escalation of the situation in the Donbass, provoked by the Ukrainian security forces, which increased the forces began to storm the position of the militia. Following the meeting, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany adopted a set of measures involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbas With fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone.