Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe monitors said there had been violations both by militants and by the Ukrainian army of the agreement to withdraw heavy weapons from the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
“Despite claims that withdrawal of heavy weapons was completed, the SMM [OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine] observed the following weapons’ movements in areas that were non-compliant with the withdrawal lines: in ‘DPR’-controlled areas, four military-type trucks towing four 152mm howitzers and two main battle tanks (T-72); in government-controlled areas, six Ukrainian Armed Forces artillery pieces towed by armoured personnel carriers and 21 Ukrainian Armed Forces tanks (T-64) in total, at different locations,” the SMM said in a report as of April 16.
Besides, SMM’s unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) provided imagery of four self-propelled howitzers in ‘DPR’-controlled Shevchenko (101km south-west of Donetsk).
“The UAV observed one armoured personnel carrier and four military trucks towing artillery, travelling in the area of government-controlled Volodarske (96km south-west of Donetsk),” reads the report.
