Kelin: Kiev late with the diversion of arms and poorly reported by the OSCE

Ukraine late start of the Removal of its heavy weapons from the contact line in the Donbass And provides Special monitoring mission (SMM) the OSCE is very little data on this issue, said on the first day of the week Last news Russia's envoy to the OSCE Andrey Kelin.

He noticed That " hmm should equally to observe the removal not only of the arms of the militia, but also Ukrainian arms.

"Militias, as they report, have already completely took arms And provided the data (about it) hmm. I have to date there is no evidence whether this data is in SMM, but they are provided these data on a voluntary basis - No obligation to Minsk in it. It is a question of how will be monitored And checking the drain, " said Kelin Last news .

"As for the Ukrainian heavy weapons, as far as is known, the Ukrainian side has decided to do It much later, orders were received only 26 February, And, apparently, she plans to extend this conclusion for two weeks. This is a very long time. This means That the delay compared with the Minsk agreements amounts to almost 2 weeks. The end conclusion is somewhere in the region of 13 March, " added Kelin.

According to the Minsk agreement, the conclusion was obliged to begin on 17 February And completed by 3 or 4 March.

The removal of the Ukrainian arms - as long as only in the starting stage, And in SMM provides very little information, said Kelin." Bend the arms At the moment of time in the first stage Is an anti-tank gun. It is not clear, I took the second stage. And data in SMM comes quite a bit, According to my information. In practice, No, " said the Russian Ambassador.

According to k?lin, as long as a little reserved Ukrainian arms, SMM has fewer cases monitoring of the Ukrainian challenge than to challenge the militias. However, SMM watches outlet Ukrainian arms, He said." as long as very little allocated Ukrainian columns, but observers accompanied them also, " said Kelin.

Thus, according to him, the OSCE, there is no evidence That the allotted weapons back then on the line of contact. Such mutual accusations were made yesterday by representatives of Kyiv And militias.

"No evidence on this point is no. The militia said That weapons given to the place of final storage And there they are now, " said the Russian Ambassador to the OSCE.


dialogues " channel four ", held on 12 February, took place against a background of a sharp aggravation of the situation in the Donbass, instigated by the Ukrainian law enforcers who, having increased strength, began to storm the position of the militia. According to the results of the meeting of the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France And Germany adopted a package of measures involving, for example, a cease-fire in the Donbass with fifteen February, the Withdrawal of heavy weapons And the development of a security zone.


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