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OSCE Mission Patrol Base In Svitlodarsk, Donetsk Region Damaged By Shelling

OSCE Mission Patrol Base In Svitlodarsk, Donetsk Region Damaged By Shelling

The forward patrol base of the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Svitlodarsk, Donetsk Region was damaged by a shelling.

Ukrainian News Agency learned this from the SMM report as of December 27.

The SMM noted a sharp decrease in the number of ceasefire violations from the evening of 24 to the evening of 25 December, coinciding with a renewed commitment by the sides to adhere to the ceasefire starting from 24 December. (The SMM recorded fewer than 30 explosions.)

The number of ceasefire violations recorded through the evening of 26 December increased compared with the previous day, with more than 170 explosions, mostly in areas east and north-east of Mariupol where the SMM also recorded intense exchanges of heavy-machine-gun and small-arms fire.

The SMM returned to its forward patrol base in Svitlodarsk late in the morning on 26 December, from where it recorded only one explosion and two instances of heavy-machine-gun and small-arms fire in the afternoon of 26 December.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the SMM recorded 2,300 explosions in Donetsk Region and 330 in Luhansk region on December 22.