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UkrInform: OSCE observers record over 8,000 violations in Donbas last week

By UkrInform.

Published March 1, 2018 at 4:51 pm

Alexander Hug, the deputy head of the OSCE monitoring mission in Ukraine, speaks during his press-conference in Kiev on April 23, 2017.The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe said Sunday one of its US monitors in Ukraine died after a patrol vehicle hit a landmine in the Russian-backed separatist east.It marked the first loss for the security body's Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) since Europe's only war broke out more than three years ago.

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Observers of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission recorded over 8,000 ceasefire violations in Donbas for the past week.

Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE SMM to Ukraine Alexander Hug said this during a briefing, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.