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UNIAN: OSCE reports blocking of its monitoring patrol in occupied Donbas

By UNIAN.

Published May 7, 2018 at 11:41 am

The logo of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is seen on a car on July 28, 2014 in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine.

Photo by AFP

The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine’s has reported its monitoring patrol was temporarily blocked near the Russian-occupied town of Debaltseve due to demining activity.

“Two armed members of the armed formations stopped an SMM patrol on road M03 near Debaltseve (58km north-east of Donetsk) telling it that there was demining activity in the area,” the OSCE SMM said in an update as of May 4. “The patrol was allowed to pass after about 90 minutes.”