"The security situation along the contact line remains unstable: during the first two weeks of September, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) reported an average of 273 ceasefire violations per day, which is about 30% more than in August," TASS his words.
He noted that there are victims among the civilian population.
“I am particularly sorry for the increase in civilian casualties: 11 in August, the highest monthly civilian casualties since the July 2020 agreement to strengthen the ceasefire entered into force.” he said.
Earlier, the plenipotentiary representative of Russia in the contact group for resolving the situation in Ukraine, Boris Gryzlov, said that Kiev had refused to return to face-to-face negotiations in Minsk.