As Cracks Appear in Minsk II, All Eyes Are on Mariupol

MariupolMap04-02-15, Geopoliticalmonitor.com

Daily reports from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) in Ukraine are available for all to read on the organization’s website. On any given day, take March 31 for example, one might come across the following laundry list of violations from both sides: SMM heard distant explosions, heavy machinegun fire, and light artillery in the area around Donetsk airport; heard 125mm tank rounds around DPR-controlled Spartak; heard 25 high-caliber artillery rounds hitting Shyrokyne near Mariupol, in addition to tank fire; heard 17 distant artillery explosions and machine-gun fire near government-controlled Putylyne; and of course “monitoring was… restricted by third parties and by security considerations.”

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