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The official European monitoring mission in eastern Ukraine has for the first time posted video footage showing convoys of trucks crossing from Russia into Ukraine and from Ukraine into Russia through a back road that has no border guards.

“The Mission’s long-range unmanned aerial vehicle spotted convoys of trucks entering and exiting Ukraine via a dirt track where there are no border crossing facilities in a non-government-controlled area of Donetsk region in the middle of the night,” the Organization for Cooperation and Security in Europe’s Special Monitoring Mission for Ukraine said in a report that for the first time mentions the convoys seen in a YouTube video that the mission later posted on August 10.

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