OSCE observers never saw military hardware or armed people crossing into Ukraine through Rostov region checkpoints
ROSTOV-ON-DON. Aug 6 (Interfax) - Monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) mission have not seen any armed people crossing the Russian-Ukrainian border at the Donetsk and Gukovo checkpoints over the past year.
Speaking at a press conference at the Interfax-South office in the Rostov region on Thursday, Paul Picard, Chief Observer of the OSCE Observer Mission said that the mission's members had never seen any armed people crossing the border. The border guard service and the customs service closely monitor it.
Picard explained that at the Donetsk and Gukovo checkpoints, OSCE observers had seen people dressed in uniforms with different identification marks, including marks of Novorossiya.
In the past year, OSCE mission members have not observed any military hardware passing through the Donetsk and Gukovo checkpoints, except for hardware belonging to the border guard service, he said.
OSCE monitors have seen helicopters, airplanes and drones over these checkpoints 115 times, he added.
