Video cameras at Donetsk filter station shelled deliberately to impede monitoring - OSCE
DONETSK. Aug 9 (Interfax-AVN) - One of the two cameras installed by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's Special Monitoring Mission (OSCE SMM) in Ukraine at the Donetsk filter station, has been repaired, OSCE SMM's first deputy chief Alexander Hug said.
On August 8, at 8.20 a.m., the camera captured small-arms fire before both of them went out of order, Hug told a press conference on Wednesday. Today the monitors visited the filter station and saw several bullet holes in the camera proper and the mast on which it was mounted, he said. The mission established that the bullets were fired from south-southeast and south-southwest. The angle of reach and the relief indicate that they were fired from a distance of 600-800 meters. This afternoon, one of the cameras at the station was restored and is now working, Hug said.
It is obvious that people are determined to prevent the mission from monitoring how the truce is being observed, the SMM deputy chief said.
A few hours earlier the SMM heard two bursts of gunfire and three isolated small-arms shots near a pump station in Vasylivka, he said.
Those behind these violations do not want the mission to conduct monitoring, ceasefire violations are taking place where the mission's activities are restricted, Hug said.
Earlier on Wednesday it was reported that a video camera installed at the Donetsk filter station had been destroyed.