The OSCE plans to start flying UAVs over the territory of Donbass
The OSCE plans to begin flights of civil UAVs over the territory of Donbass, said on the last working day of the week the speaker of the special observation mission (CNM) OSCE Michael Bociurkiw.
" As for the drones, they now will be up in the air", He said.
Bociurkiw noticed That on the area of Donbas observed moving military equipment, However, whose technique, the OSCE cannot name." The twenty-sixth of November in Shakhtersk (Donetsk region - amended) our observers saw a convoy of 20 trucks " Ural " and " KAMAZ", unmarked. It was closer to the Khartsyzsk. On the road A-21 they went to the West. Over the last 10-12 days, We noticed 3 large convoy of military vehicles that are coming From the East. There are 70 cars unmarked neither machines nor on the people, the vast majority of them were carrying heavy weapons and rocket launchers. Why not say where these convoys and to whom do they belong? We are in such a position, when We can only report only about What We see. Then others have to draw conclusions or actions. We are very careful in our observation, " said the speaker of the SNM of the OSCE at a press conference in Kyiv.
" we now 322 international observer, working in 10 cities in Ukraine. Fifty percent of them are housed in Eastern Ukraine, " said Bociurkiw, adding That the number of observers increases daily With the OSCE mission have 135 Ukrainian colleagues. He also said That the OSCE is concerned about the worsening humanitarian situation in the Donbass, for example the increasing number of displaced persons and the deterioration of the social situation of the inhabitants in these regions.
From late October to the monitoring provisions in the Donbass were connected civil drones provided by the Austrian side. A trial launch of the first unmanned aircraft took place on 23 October. The OSCE reported That they will be flying in three directions: to the South of Donetsk and to the Azov sea, eastward to the Russian-Ukrainian border, and westward in the direction of the contact line departments of the Ukrainian security forces and militia. However, later, the organization announced the suspension of application of the devices due to intentional techome.
first reports of the OSCE has stated That the observers remarked on the area of self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic 3 military convoys. Militia DND immediately confirmed That the columns belong to them. In the reports of the OSCE is not mentioned on the movements of the Ukrainian security forces. The permanent representative of the Russian Federation to the OSCE Andrey Kelin said That it intends to put before the leadership of the OSCE question about how balanced approach to the assessment of the situation in the East of Ukraine as to why they see some facts and others do not notice.