26 Sep 2014 12:50

Four Austrian drones will arrive in Ukraine to monitor ceasefire zone - Russia's OSCE envoy

MOSCOW. Sept 26 (Interfax) - Four unmanned aerial vehicles will be delivered to Ukraine from Austria on Friday to monitor the ceasefire zone in the country's eastern regions, Russia's Permanent Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Andrei Kelin, has said.

"They will arrive soon. It will be drones provided by a privately owned Austrian firm. It will be four quite simple and small drones. Their parameters were agreed upon earlier," he said at a press conference on Friday, answering a question from Interfax.

"They will conduct flights as a trial run," he added.