article_snippet: An uneasy truce has been in place since last month between the Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
article_snippet: The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, which has been monitoring the ceasefire, said Wednesday that Wednesday observers had witnessed continued fighting in areas around Donetsk airport and Shyrokyne, east of the port city of Mariupol.
article_snippet: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the presence of foreign military instructors in Ukraine did nothing to reduce tensions, Russian state news agency Sputnik reported.
article_snippet: Obviously, this is not helping in the building of trust or in easing the tensions in the conflict.
article_snippet: It can be simply said that this is not aiding in the settlement, that's a fact,Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov is quoted as saying.
article_snippet: CNN's Vasco Cotovio and Alla Eshchenko contributed to this report.