A special OSCE monitoring mission from December 11 to 17 noted about 16 thousand. violations of the regime of silence in the east. This was stated by the head of the mission in Ukraine Erturul Apakan.

According to him, for the period from December 11 to December 17, according to preliminary data, the OSCE mission noticed about 16 thousand violations of the cease-fire, which indicates a 35% increase compared to the previous week. The mission underlined the sharp deterioration of the situation. The number of violations of the ceasefire reached a level that had not been fixed since February 2017.

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