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Following intensive negotiations and brokering of a localized ceasefire with the opposing sides, a team from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine led by the Deputy Chief Monitor, Alexander Hug, entered Shyrokyne on 26 March 2015 to verify the ceasefire and assess the humanitarian situation. The visit was undertaken by armoured vehicle and on foot.

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OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (closed)
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Shyrokyne: Home and Battlefield

In the late evening hours on 27 March 2015 Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan expressed his disappointment that both sides have breached a local ceasefire arranged by the Mission two days ago in Shyrokyne, southeast Ukraine, and urged them to stop fighting immediately.
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