Despite the UN Secretary-General’s appeal to all warring parties to cease fire, the explicit ban on the use of combat aircraft provided for in paragraph 7 of the Minsk Memorandum as of September 19, 2014, the armed formations of Ukraine attacked Shirokaya Balka with a combat UAV.

Note that this is not the first case of the enemy’s use of a combat UAV, as a result of which civilians of our Republic suffer.

Thus, on September 23, 2018, two civilians were wounded in Sakhanka as a result of the explosion of a shell dropped from a guided drone.

On September 25 of the same year, in Kominternovo, the enemy opened point fire with a UAV, two civilians were wounded. This case of using the UAV was documented in the OSCE SMM report.

In August 2019, as a result of the use of a UAV, buildings, garages and vehicles in Golmovsky were damaged.

Today, the enemy used a UAV in Shirokaya Balka, a girl died and a man was seriously wounded.

All the cases of the military aggression of Ukraine are documented for subsequent proceedings, and all collected data is officially sent to the leadership of the SMM OSCE and other international organizations to give wide publicity to the criminal actions of Kiev officials.

DPR Plenipotentiary Representative to the Contact Group Natalya Nikonorova has sent a note to the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Ambassador Yaşar Çevik, and the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in­Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group, Ambassador Heidi Grau, with a call to sign as soon as possible the statement of the Contact Group on the commitment of the parties to the ceasefire in force since July 21, 2019, which includes the maximum package of additional measures for its enhancement and monitoring.

The Republic expects a proper response to the war crimes by the Kiev authorities from the OSCE and especially the Special Monitoring Mission, which should abide by paragraph 3 of their Mandate.