The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's special monitoring mission said heavy weapons that must be moved away from the contact line in Donbas in accordance with the Minsk agreements, were demonstrated during a military parade in Mariupol.
The mission’s report as of the evening of June 14, released on Monday, says that that the mission observed a military parade in Mariupol on June 13. The parade was organized by the Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s Azov volunteer battalion to mark the anniversary of the city’s transfer under Kyiv’s control. The parade was watched by National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov and Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, and other high-ranking Ukrainian officials.
The parade featured up to 100 servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the Azov volunteer battalion, three tow-trucks with artillery systems (one 100-mm 2A29 Rapira anti-tank gun and two 122-mm D-30 howitzers) in violation of the Minsk agreements to remove heavy weapons. There was also an armored personnel carrier, one Spartan armored vehicle and 12 trucks with the Azov emblem. Four of them were pulling 122-mm 2B11 Sani mortars, the report says.
The military parade was followed by a concert attended by up to 1,000 people, the OSCE’s special monitoring mission said.
