The situation in the Donetsk region remains about the calm, recorded isolated shots, according to a weekly report of the special monitoring mission of the OSCE.

"September 7, Donetsk the SMM team made 19 patrols, visited 13 locations and six stockpiles of heavy weapons. The overall Situation in the Donetsk region was calm. The Competition (community, under the control of Ukraine - ed.) the SMM heard presumably ten single shots from small arms and two bursts from a heavy machine gun at approximately 3 km North-East of its position ", - said the OSCE.

similarly, in the report of the OSCE monitoring mission reported about the fact that in the Kuibyshev district of Donetsk, the number of inhabitants decreased by thirty percent.

"in the Kuibyshev district of Donetsk the SMM met with the Deputy head of the district administration, who told the observer that the area is home to about 80,000 people (for comparison, the population before the conflict was 120 000). In addition, in the area I live near hundreds of internally displaced persons ", - is informed in the report.

at the last meeting of the trilateral contact group on settling the situation in Donbas, which was held on August 26 in Minsk, the parties agreed on the need to achieve a ceasefire on September 1.

The military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of the population of Donbass lasts more than a year. At the talks on February 12 were achieved consensus on stopping the fire, the withdrawal of heavy weapons, introduction to the Constitution of Ukraine changes on decentralization of power and the consolidation of the special status " of certain districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ".

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