The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) has stated that both sides involved into the conflict in Donbas break the agreement on withdrawal of weapons and military equipment.
“We visited three and revisited another five Ukrainian Armed Forces permanent weapons storage sites, whose locations corresponded with the respective withdrawal lines. Two of the visited sites were at locations that did not match the declared co-ordinates. At one of the sites, an 82mm mortar was missing. At the rest of the sites, the SMM noted that all declared weapons were present,” reads the mission’s report dated as of Nov. 8 and released on its website on Nov. 9.
Besides, in violation of the respective withdrawal lines, the SMM spotted in the area of Donetsk People’s Republic-controlled Makiyivka (12km north-east of Donetsk), at least one and probably up to four (three were camouflaged under a canopy), self-propelled howitzers (2S1 Gvozdika, 122mm) in a military-type compound.
Under the report, the SMM was refused access into the compound by armed ‘DPR’ members.
Moreover, the SMM spotted in violation of the withdrawal lines one main battle tank (MBT) (T-64) loaded on a heavy transporter in the area of ‘LPR’-controlled (Luhansk People’s Republic) Luhansk city.
From the Donetsk railway station in DPR-controlled Donetsk (6km north-west of Donetsk city centre), the SMM recorded on Nov. 7 one explosion at a location 3 to 4km west of its position, and another explosion 5km to its north-west on 8 November.
Also, the SMM heard on November 8 sporadic bursts of small-arms fire and two explosions some 3km south-west of ‘DPR’-controlled Shyroka Balka (33km north-east of Donetsk).
The SMM also said its unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was jammed over a government-controlled area in the vicinity of Manhush (19km west of Mariupol).
