As the Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in Ukraine of the European security watchdog OSCE said on Thursday in its daily report, the situation in the city of Donetsk and around it "is tenser than during the previous days''.
According to the document, SMM monitors of OSCE recorded 76 explosions of mortars and heavy artillery rounds in the area around the
They also observed sporadic fire with the use of small arms, automatic grenade launchers and heavy machine guns.