OSCE Special Representative Sajdik and Chief Monitor Apakan call for restraint and full adherence to ceasefire amid upsurge in violence

KYIV, 12 April 2018 – A recent upsurge in violence in eastern Ukraine threatens the lives and wellbeing of the civilian population and further undermines the ceasefire upon which their security and safety depend, said the OSCE Chairperson’s Special Representative to the Trilateral Contact Group, Martin Sajdik, and the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM), Ertugrul Apakan, today.

Ambassadors Apakan and Sajdik called on the sides to exercise restraint, saying the senseless shelling of residential areas served only to endanger civilians. “There must be compliance with the Minsk agreements,” Sajdik said. “I urge those concerned to adhere fully to the ceasefire to which they have previously committed themselves numerous times, including recently on the occasion of Easter,” Apakan added.