OSCE Mission reports shelling in Ukraine’s Donetsk despite ceasefire
The Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) reported on Tuesday of ceasefire violations in Ukraine's southeastern region of Donetsk, according to Sputnik.
The SMM is monitoring the situation in the zone of conflict between Kiev forces and independence supporters of southeast Ukraine and overseeing adherence to the February 15 ceasefire and the withdrawal of heavy weaponry from the line of contact.
According to the OSCE observers, fresh craters were detected on May 11 in Ukraine's southeastern village of Shirokino in Donetsk Region caused by an 82mm mortar. On April 29, a mortar round killed a 47-year-old man, the report said, citing the local residents.
Numerous fresh craters, one just meters from the SMM post, were found around Ukraine's government-controlled Berdianske village, 1.5km (1 mile) west of Shirokino. Other eight craters were caused by 122mm artillery rounds, with further two caused by 152mm artillery rounds, the report read.
The situation in self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic was "relatively calm" except for two "limited" shelling, according to the report.