KIEV, May 12 - Members of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (OSCE SMM) conducting round-the-clock monitoring at the Gukovo and Donetsk border checkpoints have reported intense truck and rail traffic in both directions.

"During the reporting week the OM (observation mission) continued to observe an increased number of trucks crossing the border in both directions," the mission said in a weekly report as of 10 a.m. on May 12 posted on Tuesday evening.