OSCE about escalation of situation in Donbass

Last week, the OSCE SMM has recorded an increase in the number of ceasefire violations. Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE SMM to Ukraine Alexander Hug announced this at a briefing on Skype today, - correspondent of OstroV reports.

"Last week, the OSCE SMM stated an increase in the number of violations of the ceasefire by 10%. Last week, we recorded 4827 violations of the ceasefire", - he reported.

Hug also noted that last week, an increase in the use of weapons prohibited by the Minsk agreements was registered almost 9 times.

"Last week, we also recorded 144 units of weapon that should have been withdrawn from the line of contact: 49 in the government-controlled areas and 95 in areas that are not controlled by the government", - he added.