Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 19:30 (Kyiv time), 26 June 2015

At the JCCC headquarters in Soledar (government-controlled, 75km north-east of Donetsk), the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Russian Federation Armed Forces representatives at the JCCC presented the SMM with two separate logbooks, both indicating a majority of ceasefire violations committed by the “Lugansk People’s Republic” (“LPR”) and “DPR” armed groups. The Ukrainian Major General, Head of the Ukrainian side to the JCCC, stated that, in the morning of 26 June, the “DPR” forces launched 122 rockets from six Grad-P light portable rocket systems, impacting in the vicinity of Berdianske (government-controlled, 103km south of Donetsk, 18km east of Mariupol), destroying a JCCC vehicle and forcing representatives of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to abandon a JCCC observation post. The Russian Federation Armed Forces Chief of Staff also referred to usage of approximately six pieces of Grad-P light portable rocket systems