Illegal armed groups in separate areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions (ORDLO) continue limiting freedom of movement of monitors of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) and jeopardize their work, Ukraine's representatives of the Joint Control and Coordination Center (JCCC) have reported.

"Since early 2018, the OSCE SMM continues to register cases of threats, limitations of access to military facilities and freedom of movement of its patrols on the territory temporarily uncontrolled by the government of Ukraine," the press center of the ATO headquarters said on its Facebook page on Sunday morning.

"At the same time, populists from ORDLO simulate teeming activity, having issued the second "order" in the past six months banning the unjustified limitation of freedom of movement of OSCE monitors. After issuing the first "order" late August 2017, the number of these restrictions not only did not decrease, but even increased. For example, during the first month when "the order" was in effect the OSCE CMM recorded 46 cases of these violations," the headquarters said.

Ukraine's representatives of the JCCC said that this testifies to the populist nature of the published "orders" and a lack of interest of the leaders of quasi-state "republics" and their Russian supervisors in an impartial monitoring of the implementation of Minsk agreements by the militants and the observance of the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine.