The mission reported on the incident to the Joint Center for Monitoring and Coordination on the incident and asked him to investigate. This is stated in the mission report for the past day.

According to the report, about ten o'clock in the morning the mission patrol, consisting of four people, was south of the broken part of the pedestrian bridge and monitored the crossing of the civilian population by wooden ramps. An unarmed man wearing military clothes approached him and started talking, but it was difficult to understand him because he spoke in broken Russian with a strong accent, presumably both from the North Caucasus.

Then the man left and in just two minutes returned with an assault rifle, installed a rifle shop, cut off the fuse and sent it to the patrol from about three meters. The OSCE also noted that there were two unarmed men in military clothing present.

The armed man loudly said: You are all spies. You do not have to walk near our positions. You have nothing to do here at all. Get out of here..

I count three and if you do not leave, I will shoot, "he said and began counting," the OSCE says, adding that after that the observer returned to two armored cars parked to the south of the bridge and left the area.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, on Sunday, August 13, about seven o'clock in the evening, militants shelled residential quarters in Marinka. On houses of local residents, 82 mm mortar shells and automatic grenade launchers were fired from the Minsk accords.