Number of ceasefire violations in eastern Ukraine intensified over past several days, says OSCE
Over the last 24 hours the number of violations of ceasefire reached between Ukrainian authorities and militia of self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic (DPR and LPR) in the eastern part of Ukraine had significantly increased, according to a daily report of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) published on December 5.
"Ukrainian and Russian Federation representatives of the Joint Centre for Control Co-ordination (JCCC) in Debaltseve reported that the number of ceasefire violations had significantly increased over the last 24 hours, reaching 110 incidents, registered in both Ukrainian and Russian Federation incident logs," reads the document.
"Both sides confirmed that a ceasefire for Donetsk airport did not hold and hostilities renewed at 0800 on 3 December," reads the document.
The SMM observed that shelling in the northern outskirts of the city of Donetsk intensified over the last 48 hours. Heavy outgoing artillery and Multiple Rocket Launcher Systems (MLRS) toward the direction of Donetsk airport have been intermittently used, as directly observed by the SMM.
