Ukrainian military not notifying OSCE where they withdraw heavy weapons to - Kelin
MOSCOW. March 11 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian military are withdrawing heavy weapons in Donbas, but observers from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) have no information on where these weapons are being withdrawn to, Andrei Kelin, Russia's envoy to the OSCE, said.
"As to the weapons withdrawal, it is being done by the Ukrainian military. The militia are confirming that they withdrew all their weapons a long time ago," Kelin said in a phone interview with Interfax.
"The [OSCE] monitors sometimes see hardware convoys. Sometimes OSCE observers are warned about them, and sometimes they aren't warned. But these convoys move. The Ukrainian troops are not notifying the OSCE observers of the end destination points of the military hardware and they are not letting them in those points. That is, they are keeping them from accessing the end destination points of the convoys," Kelin said.
"We have no full information on the Ukrainian troops' movements. A monitoring conducted via a drone plane shows that a lot of hardware is being moved," Kelin said.
"The latest report by the SMM contains information on drone planes in the area of Artemivsk, some fifty km north of Donetsk. The drone plane showed that there are many tanks, howitzers and reactive salvo fire systems on the territory," the envoy said.
"All these things have not been withdrawn beyond the lined outlined in the Minsk agreements yet," Kelin said.
