“The situation is critical, the observed tendency confirms the enemy’s intentions to start a new round of escalation,” Donetsk News Agency quotes Yakubov.

According to him, the DPR representative office in the JCCC sent an official notification to the OSCE SMM.

Earlier, representatives of the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics announced their intention to unilaterally transfer a group of detained persons to Kiev.