KYIV, 4 February 2015 – Indiscriminate shelling around Debaltseve and other areas in eastern Ukraine has intensified, forcing innocent civilians to flee their homes. Many of them are in mortal danger. The Head of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan, echoing yesterday’s call by the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić, urged in the strongest terms all sides to stop the shelling of residential areas and all other military activities and establish a temporary truce that would allow for the immediate evacuation of the civilian population on humanitarian grounds. The SMM stands ready …read more
Source: OSCE
