OSCE mission installs two video cameras near contact line in Donbas
KYIV. April 16 (Interfax) - The special mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has installed two video monitoring cameras in Ukraine's Donbas, each on the either side of the contact line between the conflicting parties, in the town of Avdiyivka and at the Oktyabrskaya coalmine, Alexander Hug, Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine, said.
"Now we have installed a video surveillance camera in the town of Avdiyivka. This will allow us to monitor the situation round the clock. And one hour ago, we installed the very type of camera near the Oktyabrskaya mine," Hug told Interfax on Saturday.
Thus, OSCE SMM has had security cameras installed on the both sides of the contact line, which will make it possible to monitor more efficiently the situation with violations of the silence regime in Avdiyivka and near the Oktyabrskaya coal pit, Hug emphasized.
The video monitoring cameras will make a good supplement to the patrolling already conducted in the form of 'mirror patrols' on the both sides, Hug said.
He went on to reveal that the OSCE receives records from the video cameras in the form of encoded data, via secure communication channels, and that this information remains a sole property of the organization.
A similar type of video camera was installed earlier near Shyrokine.