The OSCE reported another increase in ceasefire violations in the Donbas
On Sunday, November 6th, the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) of the OSCE reported an increase in ceasefire violations in the Donetsk region, BBC reports.
According to the released report, in the Luhansk region, the number of violations has decreased. However, for the period from November 3 to 4, the OSCE observers recorded 585 explosions in the Donetsk region, while in the previous reporting period there were 430 of them.
"On the night of November 4th, in the DPR-controlled city of Horlivka (39 km northeast of Donetsk), for two hours the observers heard 220 explosions at a distance of 8-10 kilometers southwest of their location,” the document says.
Observers also said that they heard explosions at different distances, being in Svitlodarsk, Donetsk, Shyrokyne, Yasynuvata, Petrovske and Bezymyanne.
Among other things, the OSCE observers reported about mortar mine bursts, bursts of heavy machine-gun fire, tracer shell shots and "numerous crossfires from large-caliber machine guns and small arms."
"On the basis of the aerial surveillance data at the disposal of the SMM, 303 relatively fresh impact sites made by unknown systems of arms in the area of the government-controlled Vodyane village, and DPR-controlled Pikuzy village (formerly Kominternovo), and Sakhanka village (20 km, 23 km and 24 kilometers north-east of Mariupol, respectively) were found in an open area, though they had not been observed there on October 15th,” the report says.
The mission also recorded 13 explosions of undetermined origin in the Luhansk region. For the previous reporting period, 36 explosions were recorded.