The observer mandate of a 22-strong international team launched in July is bwing prolonged until March 23, 2015, at the militant controlled checkpoints near Gukovo and Donetsk, Ukraine Today reports.

The European security watchdog has not yet succeeded in fulfilling its tasks of resolving the conflict in eastern Ukraine.

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