Baku-APA. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) on Friday called for an immediate ceasefire in eastern Ukraine following the deaths of civilians and a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation this week, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
"The ceasefire represented a real opportunity for a sustainable de-escalation of the situation; to put it at risk would be irresponsible and deplorable," the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Didier Burkhalter was quoted by the organization's press service as saying.
Burkhalter underlined the need to immediately stop fighting, to strictly observe the ceasefire deal and to implement the measures agreed upon in the Minsk Protocol signed last month.
The remarks came after Laurent DuPasquier, a 38-year-old Swiss national who worked as an administrator at ICRC's office in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk city, was killed in a shelling in Donetsk.
The ICRC expressed its distress and shock over the killing of its staff and civilian casualties in Donetsk.
The Ukrainian government troops and independence-seeking insurgents, who staged violent confrontation in the eastern city, have traded barbs, accusing each other of being responsible for the incident.
Both sides have repeatedly blamed each other for shelling the residential area, which resulted in heavy civilian casualties.
At least 3,000 people have been killed and around 8,000 wounded in the bloody conflicts in eastern Ukraine, according to UN estimates.
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