The situation in Donbas remained calm over the past day, but the monitors of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Special Monitoring Mission (OSCE SMM) heard a few explosions and small-arms fire in the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), the mission said in a report posted on the OSCE website on Oct. 6.
“The SMM observed a relatively calm situation in Donetsk region”, the mission’s report said.
Meanwhile, the monitors at the observation point of the Joint Center for Control and Coordination in the DPR at Donetsk railway station heard multiple bursts from an automatic grenade launcher, machine-gun and small arms northwest of their position. Two explosions were also heard in the settlement of Oleksandrivka, some 20 kilometers southwest of Donetsk, the report said.
It was also reported that in the Donetsk People’s Republic Dokuchayevsk residents said in the talks with SMM monitors that they had not heard any gunshots already for several weeks. The head of the city authorities said that people were returning to their homes and that the city’s population has reached 21,000 as compared with 13,000 in January 2015. Before the conflict in Donbas 25,000 lived in Dokuchayevsk.
