30 Mar 2016 17:12

OSCE monitors record two explosions in Stanitsa Luhanske on March 28

LUHANSK. March 30 (Interfax) - Monitors of the Special Monitoring Mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE SMM) have recorded several explosions in the area of a pedestrian crossing between Ukraine and the area controlled by the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), the mission press service told Interfax on Wednesday.

"On March 28, the SMM heard two loud explosions about 500 meters from their location at a Ukrainian Armed Forces roadblock in the government-controlled town of Stanitsa Luhanske (16 kilometers northeast of Luhansk). The monitors have crossed the bridge and met with a Ukrainian army representative under the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC). He said that a few minutes ago he saw two women, who were going out of the forest in the eastern direction from the bridge to the LPR roadblock," the press service reported.

The assistant commander told the SMM at the LPR-controlled roadblock that "a woman was injured in the blast of two grenades (40mm), east of the roadblock, in the woodland," the press service said.

"He demonstrated to the monitors a fragment, which, in his words, has been removed from the clothes of the injured woman. The SMM asked to talk to the women, but 'the assistant commander' said that they went by bus to Luhansk. The SMM saw the stains of fresh blood on the ground on the bridge and outside the LPR roadblock," the statement said.

On March 28, the LPR People's Militsiya reported about a grenade-launcher attack by the Ukrainian military against the two women, who were crossing the dividing line in the area of Stanitsa Luhanske. According to the medics, the women suffered fragmentation injuries of various degrees.