Heavy weaponry still remains on the contact line in eastern Ukraine, said Michael Bociurkiw, speaker of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Special Monitoring Mission (OSCE SMM).
The heavy weaponry, which should be pulled back, still remains on the contact line on both sides, Bociurkiw said at the press briefing on Oct.15.
The SMM speaker said that on Oct. 5 and Oct. 8 the monitors have seen a guided anti-tank missile system in the Ukraine controlled Novotoshkivske settlement.
On Oct. 9 and Oct. 10 SMM unmanned aerial vehicle spotted seven tanks and other military hardware in Komsomolsk and 23 tanks near Solntseve – terrotories, controlled by Russian-baked separatists from Donetsk.
Bociurkiw also noted the low level of honoring the agreements regarding the keeping place of previously withdrawn heavy military hardware.
“The weapons are not being kept at the places where they should be after the pullback,” he said.
The OSCE SMM also faces cases when the freedom of movement of SMM monitors is restricted, in the Donbas, in particular, Russian-baked separatists armed representatives hamper the access of mission monitors to places where weaponry is withdrawn, and the monitors were twicely denied access in the Donetsk Oblast to the Kyiv-controlled territory, the mission speaker said.
