01:24UN: Marinka clashes don't necessarily indicate an uptick in violence - OSCE official
The recent violence in Marinka "does not necessarily represent a further intensification of violence" in eastern Ukraine but rather "a refocusing of weaponry and personnel," said Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Alexander Hug, to members of the UN Security Council in New York, Friday.
Hug, who joined the emergency UN Security Council meeting from Ukraine over video chat also said that weapons previously recorded by the Special Monitoring Mission have now gone missing. He went on to note that members of the OSCE had been denied entry to areas along the Russian-Ukrainian international border.
Friday's emergency UN Security Council meeting was called to address the uptick in violence this week across the Donbass region. A market in Donetsk's Kirovsky district was destroyed during shelling on Wednesday and fighting broke out in the town of Marinka to the south-west of Donetsk, Thursday.
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
01:24The recent violence in Marinka "does not necessarily represent a further intensification of violence" in eastern Ukraine but rather "a refocusing of weaponry and personnel," said Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Alexander Hug, to members of the UN Security Council in New York, Friday.
Hug, who joined the emergency UN Security Council meeting from Ukraine over video chat also said that weapons previously recorded by the Special Monitoring Mission have now gone missing. He went on to note that members of the OSCE had been denied entry to areas along the Russian-Ukrainian international border.
Friday's emergency UN Security Council meeting was called to address the uptick in violence this week across the Donbass region. A market in Donetsk's Kirovsky district was destroyed during shelling on Wednesday and fighting broke out in the town of Marinka to the south-west of Donetsk, Thursday.
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV