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OSCE Monitors Come Under Fire in Luhansk Region

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The incident occurred on February 4, when an OSCE SMM patrol was en route from Luhansk to meet an SMM convoy coming from government-controlled Sievierodonetsk.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine said Thursday its patrol had come under mortar fire in Luhansk region.

The incident occurred on February 4, when an SMM patrol was en route from Luhansk to meet an SMM convoy coming from government-controlled Sievierodonetsk (90km west of Luhansk), the mission said in a situational report posted on OSCE website.

"At 11:06hrs [on Wednesday], when the SMM patrol en route from Luhansk was approximately 700 meters from the south end of Stanytsia Luhanska bridge [in “LPR”-controlled territory], three mortar rounds exploded," the report said.

"The SMM assessed that the mortars [possibly 82mm] came from a north-westerly direction," it said.

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The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Special Monitoring Mission has been deployed in eastern Ukraine at Kiev's request since last spring.

Despite a ceasefire agreement reached by the warring parties in September 2014, a surge of violence in eastern Ukraine has shown no signs of abating since the start of January.

A Kiev-led military assault on predominantly Russian-speaking independence supporters in the Donbas, which also encompasses the neighboring Donetsk region, dates back to mid-April 2014.

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