Baku-APA. International observers monitoring the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine on Friday reported that fighting intensified around the international airport in the city of Donetsk.
The overall security situation at and around the Donetsk airport "remained tense", the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s special monitoring mission (SMM) to Ukraine said in its latest report, adding that the mission "observed an increase in ceasefire violations", APA reports quoting TASS.
In the town of Makeyevka, north-east of Donetsk, "the SMM observed the arrival of a convoy of 67 transport trucks labelled with ‘humanitarian aid from the Russian Federation’," the report said.
The OSCE mission said it also visited the local humanitarian aid depot "where the head of the committee on provision of humanitarian aid and director of the warehouses approached the SMM and invited the monitors to visit the facility".
The SMM "observed more than 20 trucks marked with ‘Russian Federation humanitarian aid’ and displaying Russian Federation number plates," the report said, adding that the monitors also "saw members of Russian Federation ‘ministry of emergencies’ wearing ‘Ministry of Emergency Situations’ emblems on uniforms".
An interlocutor was quoted by the mission as saying that "medical supplies still remained the biggest need" and "convoys from the Russian Federation arrive three to four times a month".
The overall situation in the Luhansk region was "relatively calm", the report said.
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