At the parade of the Ukrainian army in Mariupol attended Minsk agreements prohibited the heavy weapons, report of the special OSCE monitoring mission in Ukraine.
According to the document, 13 June in Mariupol held a parade organized by the volunteer regiment " Azov ", which is part of the Ministry of internal Affairs, in honor of the first anniversary of the liberation of the city from the militants. It was attended by the NSDC Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov, Minister of internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov, as well as other officials, a senior government post, informs " 112 Ukraine ".
the parade was attended by 3 of the truck-tractor that towed artillery. Note that the present Minsk agreements prohibited the installation of 100 mm antitank gun 2A29 "rapier" and two 122-mm howitzers D30. In addition, the parade was one APC, one armoured car "Spartan" and twelve trucks with the logo of " Azov ". Four cars pulled mortars (2B11 " Sani ", 122 mm). As stated, June 13, in Mariupol, Lenin square was renamed Freedom square. In the NSDC Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov, together with the Minister of internal Affairs Arsen Avakov also opened the monument for the liberation fighters. The battalion " Azov ", then deployed to the regiment, was recruited mostly from the neo-Nazis from Ukraine, from Russia, CIS and far abroad. The regiment is stationed in Mariupol, is actively involved in the battle for Shirokino. On 12 June, the chamber authorized the U.S. Congress on Thursday passed a draft law on the allocation to the Ministry of defence of Ukraine of appropriations for the ensuing fiscal year with an amendment, which prohibits the expenditure of funds for preparation of fighters of the Ukrainian volunteer battalion " Azov "." It took over a year to the us Congress saw, because this unit is a bunch of outright Nazis, flaunting with the emblems of Nazi SS troops and acting Like Nazis in occupied territory. But better late than never, " he said on the issue made in the U.S. Congress, the statements of the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich." the next logical step is to recognize, finally, that last year's coup in Kiev, strongly supported by Washington, was by the hands of those most Nazi thugs. It is clear that other establishment of the National guard of Ukraine no better than the " Azov ", - told in the Ministry. For its part, the leadership of the battalion was surprised and outraged adopted amendments." Our Regiment has always stood on the positions of patriotism and never appealed to any other world ideological currents. Ukraine, which is much older than the USA, in princely times had a professional army. Any military operations has always been about protection, not the capture. For this reason, in our land never was even the basis for the emergence of phenomena, which told the congressmen, "said the command" Azov ".

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