According to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, there are currently as many incidents as before an agreement signed in July 2020 to strengthen the ceasefire.
Observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said on Saturday that they had observed a “dramatic increase” violations of the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces have been clashing since 2014. In a press release, she lists the armed actions along the front line and adds that There are now as many incidents as before an agreement signed in July 2020 to strengthen the ceasefire.
The OSCE reported 222 violations Thursday on the frontline in the Donetsk region held by pro-Russian separatists, including 135 “explosions”, against 189 on Wednesday and 24 on Tuesday. If exchanges of shells have indeed hit about twenty localities along the “line of contact” since Thursday, the rest of the front has remained calm, and the interior of the separatist region was not the subject of any Friday. particular military pressure.
In the region of Lugansk, another city in eastern Ukraine held by the separatists, the organization recorded 648 violations, including 519 “explosions”, against 402 on Wednesday and 129 on Tuesday.
The OSCE called “the parties to strictly adhere to all the commitments they have made, to take all necessary measures to reduce tensions and to work for an immediate de-escalation for the good of innocent civilians on both sides of the front line, who continue to suffer because of this conflict.
The organization, which includes Russia and the United States, deployed an observation mission to Ukraine in 2014, after the annexation of Crimea by Moscow and the start of the conflict between Kiev and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. This conflict claimed more than 14,000 lives.