OSCE SMM reports access denial in occupied Donbas

REUTERS

The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission reported "denial of access" in the occupied areas of Donbas, that's according to Ukrainian members to the Joint Ceasefire Control and Coordination Center.

At a spot daily report, the OSCE SMM says their monitors were denied access at a checkpoint near Verkhnoshyrokivske (formerly Oktiabr) and Prymorske.

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Also, members of illegal armed groups denied SMM monitors access to a compound near Mykhailivka.

"Such actions may be aimed at concealing the prohibited activities of Russian armed formations, maneuvers and training of troops," the JCCC members wrote in the report published on the Joint Forces Operation Facebook page.