{"id":67857,"date":"2017-02-24T14:45:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T14:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=52985"},"modified":"2017-02-24T19:23:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T17:23:58","slug":"52985-osce-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/52985-osce-49","title":{"rendered":"OSCE SMM: Use of Minsk-proscribed weapons decreased by 80 per cent over the last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_9Fow9iNB_w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH IN ENGLISH<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The security situation in the east has improved for the second consecutive week. \u201cLast week saw a 20 percent decrease in the number of ceasefire violations compared to the previous week. The decrease in the level of violence, if measured in terms of the use of Minsk-proscribed weapons [\u2026] has been particularly dramatic. Last week we recorded 185 explosions caused by tanks, mortars and artillery. The comparative number for the previous week was 884. That\u2019s an 80 percent decrease,\u201d said Alexander Hug, Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, at a press briefing at Ukraine Crisis Media Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, according to monitor\u2019s observations, the ceasefire violations happen on a daily basis, especially on the Svitlodarsk bulge. For instance, on Tuesday, February 21, the monitors in Svitlodarsk heard 86 undetermined explosions, five explosions assessed as automatic-grenade-launcher fire, five explosions assessed as impacts of 82mm mortar rounds, nearly 60 bursts of heavy-machine-gun and 50 bursts of small-arms fire. On Wednesday in so-called \u201cDPR\u201d-controlled Debaltseve their monitors heard 298 undetermined explosions. \u201cBased in Svitlodarsk early yesterday morning, they [the monitors] heard over 300 explosions, all within the space of less than two hours\u201d, added Alexander Hug.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE SMM reminded that the SMM are waiting for the sides to provide the baseline information about the weapons that have to be withdrawn from the security zone. We have thus far received some information on weapons that the sides previously withdrew. [\u2026] We need updated inventories, of weapons currently in the security zone; of weapons to be withdrawn. The actual weapons we have seen and heard firing this week,\u201d he stressed. For instance, on Tuesday in government-controlled areas in violation of the respective withdrawal lines the SMM monitors observed nine tanks; in areas not controlled by the government they observed five tanks. On Wednesday in government-controlled areas they observed six howitzers, and in areas not controlled by the government, two tanks and two infantry fighting vehicles, mounted with an anti-tank-guided missile system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE SMM said that the SMM monitors still face restrictions of their freedom of movement. \u201cWhen there is more fighting, there are more restrictions,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alexander Hug confirmed that currently there are discussions of suggestions to increase the number of monitors and capacities of the SMM. \u201cThese discussions are being held at the Permanent council in Vienna. And once decisions have been reached in the Permanent Council, the OSCE SMM would be in a position to define what it in actual terms would mean on the ground,\u201d he elaborated. This decision will possibly be taken in the end of March, when the OSCE mandate should be extended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCH IN ENGLISH The security situation in the east has improved for the second consecutive week. \u201cLast week saw a 20 percent decrease in the number of ceasefire violations compared to the previous week. 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