OSCE monitors to visit Donbas roadblock where Russian journalists came under attack

DONETSK. March 9 (Interfax) - Members of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) will visit the Yasynuvata roadblock where Russian journalists bore witness to a Ukrainian attack on Tuesday.

An OSCE SMM spokesman told reporters on Wednesday that the monitors intended to visit the shelling scene near the Yasynuvata roadblock, as servicemen had informed them about a shelling incident on Tuesday.

The Donetsk news agency said on Tuesday that a Russian press team came under attack near the town of Yasynuvata in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).

It was reported earlier with reference to a source in the DPR law enforcement agencies that the Ukrainian army took over a stretch of the Yasynuvata-Horlivka road in the buffer zone and opened fire on civilian vehicles on Monday.

The staff of the Ukrainian army operation in Donbas denied the claims that a buffer zone area near the Yasynuvata-Horlivka road had been occupied and that civilian vehicles were attacked.