The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine reports an increase in the number of attacks in Donbas by more than a third and militants use banned artillery and mortars, spokesperson for Ukraine's representative in the Trilateral Contact Group, second president of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, Darka Olifer said referring to Chief Monitor of the OSCE SMM Ertugrul Apakan.

"Chief Monitor of the OSCE SMM Ertugrul Apakan has delivered a report on the results of the security subgroup's work. The OSCE SMM has recorded a sharp increase in the number of attacks in Donbas by more than a third," Olifer said on Facebook on Wednesday.

According to her, Shyrokyne, Pavlopil, Avdiyivka and Svitlodarsk come under fire. "[Illegal armed units of] the ORDLO (occupied areas in Donetsk and Luhansk regions) violate the ceasefire, using, among other things, artillery systems and mortars that are banned by the Minsk agreements," Olifer said.