“We are concerned about the degradation of the security situation in the east of the country,” the statement said.

The Foreign Ministry noted that since the beginning of August, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission has recorded about a thousand cases of ceasefire violations.

The ministry also indicated that the supply of weapons to Ukraine from NATO provokes militaristic sentiments and military escalation.

Earlier, in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, special interdepartmental bodies were created to search for the missing.