Deputy Mission Chief Alexander Hug described such incidents where observers’ lives were put in jeopardy as unacceptable

Ukraine is trying to cling to existing disagreements in order to avoid doing anything, DPR people’s council deputy chairman and envoy to Contact Group Denis Pushilin says

The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements”. Its monitoring was restricted by the parties and security considerations*. The SMM conducted crater analysis in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, after shelling impacted civilians and residential buildings. The SMM met with two persons being held at a pre-trial detention centre in Kyiv following their arrest at a checkpoint in the Donetsk region. An SMM patrol was threatened by an armed “DPR” member east of Mariupol.

Plotnitsky commented on reports that LPR’s pension fund and social welfare agency allegedly want to stop making social payments to residents in case they receive payments from Ukraine

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Cécile Pouilly says that almost 7,000 people have been killed and over 17,000 have been injured since the start of the Ukrainian conflict in April 2014.

The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements”. Its monitoring was restricted by the parties and security considerations*. The SMM noted an increase in ceasefire violations at and around the Donetsk airport. 

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The OSCE mission patrol that arrived in Shirokino for an inspection on July 27, came under fire from small arms and grenade launchers

"Ukraine has been and will remain a unitary state," the president said

The bodies have been exhumed for forensic studies

Russia will send two more convoys of humanitarian aid to the conflict-torn Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine in August, Russian Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov told reporters Tuesday.