Donetsk residents say militants use roofs of their houses as firing positions: OSCE

Thursday, June 2, 2016 - 20:30 (EEST) Section: Latest news

OSCE monitors have been told by Donetsk residents that armed men from the so-called ”DPR” were using the roofs of their buildings to fire weapons, that`s according to Deputy Chief of OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Donbas Alexander Hug.
”Just two days before our monitors actually went to Kuibyshevskyi district and saw damage to residential buildings. They were also told by residents that armed men were using the roofs of their buildings to fire weapons,” said Hug.
He emphasized that ”using densely populated residential areas as firing positions – or even locating military hardware in such areas – is banned,” although the SMM finds it a ”common practice.”
”The people of Donbas have yet again had another difficult week,” said Hug. ”Violence continues.”
A ceasefire regime has many times been declared on the contact line between the government-controlled part of Donbas and the occupied areas, but it has been systematically violated, including with the use of heavy weapons that had to be withdrawn according to the Minsk agreements.