The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) and the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) helped ensure the ceasefire near the Donetsk water filtration station, OSCE SMM Principal Deputy Chief Monitor Alexander Hug said.
“A. Hug: the #OSCE SMM together with JCCC assisted in ensuring localized ceasefire around DFS. It is mainly holding. Must be maintained,” the SMM OSCE said in its Twitter.
As reported, overhead power lines were damaged in the shelling near Avdiyivka late in the evening on Jan. 30. The incident resulted in the disruption of heating and water supply, electricity was cut off to the Avdiyivka coking plant and the Donetsk filtration station.
The Russian party to the JCCC has granted the Donetsk regional authorities written guarantees of a ceasefire, repair brigades have already been dispatched for the repair of the power line near Avdiyivka, Donetsk Regional Military-Civil Administration Head Pavlo Zhebrivsky said on Feb. 1.
On the same day Hug announced the start of repairs at the Donetsk filtration station.
