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The Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on March 5 assessed the current situation in the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as "relatively calm."

“The SMM conducted a patrol to the “Donetsk People’s Republic” -controlled Donetsk airport (8km north-west of Donetsk city-centre). During the SMM presence from 2.15 p.m. until 3.20 p.m. hours, the situation in the airport was calm and quiet. Inside the new terminal building the SMM observed two dead bodies (possibly Ukrainian soldiers),” the SMM said in a report.
“The Donetsk Gusak Surgery Institute told the SMM about an accident that occurred in the Zasyadko coalmine (7 km north-west of the Donetsk city-centre) in the early morning hours,” it said. “The SMM spoke to two of the casualties.”
“At the temporary headquarters of the Joint Centre for Control and Co-ordination (JCCC) in government-controlled Soledar (77km north of Donetsk), the SMM was shown the JCCC incident log, which recorded 58 alleged ceasefire violations for the 24-hour period preceding 08:00hrs, 4 March, which allegedly mostly occurred at the Donetsk airport,” the SMM said.