The OSCE agitates for the demilitarization of all areas along the line of contact in Donbas, not only in Shirokino, said at a press conference the Deputy head of the Special monitoring mission (SMM) of the OSCE Alexander Hg.

on the last working day of the week the Hg is located in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. First it claimed that on 4 July, he plans to visit the settlement Shirokino (fifteen km from Mariupol).

"I wish to note that the withdrawal from Shirokino is just only one step. That's bound to happen across the contact line, and the guns must be silent with fifteen February, across the line of contact, " said hug.

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 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 situation in the Donbass remains restless. Regular attacks are subjected to Kuibyshev territory of Donetsk, the Donetsk airport, the Village Lugansk, Gorlovka and other towns. Militia DND and LNR state that the Ukrainian Military continues to pull to the frontline heavy weapons, including systems of volley fire " Grad ". Ukrainian security forces, for their part, reported that the Minsk agreements prohibited weapons used by the Militia. Development of the situation in the South-East of Ukraine read

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