Employees of the OSCE monitoring mission came under fire in the city of Happiness
"The OSCE delegation led by the coordinator of the subgroup on humanitarian issues of the Contact Group to resolve the situation in the Donbass Tony Frisch today came under mortar shelling of Ukrainian security officials near the city of Happiness when trying to return to the territory of Ukraine" Interfax.
It is noted that "after the fire of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stopped, T. Frisch made a decision to return to Lugansk".
Representatives of the People’s Militia of the Luhansk People’s Republic also reported that the OSCE had to hide from a two-hour bombardment in one of the gutters.
“When a delegation from the OSCE arrived at our positions, we were dug again by fire. Part of the observers with the fighters of the People's Militia took refuge in the dugouts, part of the sewer pipe, so that they would not get torn off by splinters and in no way hurt, ”said the representative of the military department.
According to him, the shelling of militia positions in the area of Happiness began on Sunday morning and continued until lunch.
"The OSCE representatives called someone asking them to stop the shelling, but their requests were ignored and the fire continued," said the representative of the People's Militia of the LPR.
Meanwhile, the speaker of the Joint Center for the Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC), Roman Yurchilo, said that the Ukrainian security forces had opened fire from weaponswhich is not prohibited by the Minsk agreements, in response to militia fighters firing at their positions.
“This event was recorded by representatives of the OSCE mission from one and the other sides, who at that time were near the village of Schaste, awaiting OSCE Ambassador for Humanitarian Affairs Frish (coordinator of the humanitarian affairs subgroup of the Contact Group for the settlement of the situation in Donbas Tony Frish) The Ukrainian side of the JCCC considers this case as a clear provocation aimed at discrediting the Armed Forces of Ukraine, ”he said.
According to him, during the shelling, which began at 11.55 on Sunday, militia fighters used easel anti-tank grenade launchers, Tanks, small arms and several motorized infantry units.
“In 14.20, with uncommon efforts by the leadership of the Ukrainian STsKK side, the fire was stopped. It was possible to avoid numerous casualties from both the ATO forces and the civilian population, ”Yurchilo stressed.
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