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OSCE monitors register some 6,000 ceasefire breaches in Donbas over past week

Published June 9, 2017 at 4:41 pm

An armed Russian-backed separatist walks past a convoy of the OSCE near village Pryshyb, near Lugansk, on April 25, 2017, where a OSCE patrol vehicle was destroyed in an explosion on April 23, 2017.

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Almost 6,000 ceasefire breaches were registered on the contact line in eastern Ukraine over the past week, OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) Principal Deputy Chief Monitor Alexander Hug told a briefing in Kyiv on June 9.

The monitors also registered 28 weapons deployed in breach of the agreements on weapons withdrawal from the contact line in the past week: five weapons on the Kyiv-controlled territories and 23 weapons on the separatist-held territories, he said.