The SMM followed up on reports of a man who had suffered injuries in an incident with UXO in Makiivka (non-government-controlled, 12km north-east of Donetsk). On 8 March, at a hospital in Makiivka, the Mission saw a man (in his thirties) with both lower limbs amputated below the knees and his left eye half-closed. He told the Mission that on 19 February he had picked up a round-shaped metal object in the street while walking to his garage in Zaslonova Street in Makiivka. At his garage, he said, he had accidentally dropped the object and could not remember anything that had happened afterwards. Medical staff at the same hospital told the SMM that the man had been admitted on 19 February with blast injuries to both lower limbs necessitating amputations, as well as an eye injury.

Source: OSCE