Special monitoring mission (SMM) of the OSCE on Thursday conducted a test launch of the first unmanned aerial vehicles, which will monitor the ceasefire in the East of Ukraine.

" Special monitoring mission of the OSCE in Ukraine today in the presence of authorized media has successfully held its 1st launch their UAV close to Mariupol on the East of Ukraine, " reads the circulated report. It also States that on Friday If weather conditions will begin regular flights of unmanned aerial vehicles.

before France and Germany told about the readiness to provide their UAVs in the order of the OSCE mission in Ukraine. At the meeting in Milan last Friday, to be joined Italy and Russia. As said the Russian Ambassador to the OSCE Andrey Kelin, offered by countries drones are military, they will be accompanied by military personnel. This requires a change in the mandate of the OSCE, which currently covers only the use of civilian staff of the OSCE in Ukraine. The head of the OSCE Didier Burkhalter said that the organization begins meeting on the issue of possible applications for monitoring observance of the truce in Ukraine unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which would give Russia, France, Germany and Ukraine.

" These UAVs will help to make broader existing monitoring carried out in the framework of our mandate in Ukraine ", - said the head of the organization's mission ertu?rul Apakan. According to him, the data obtained using unmanned aerial vehicles, are designed to Supplement the data that the OSCE receives through its observers in the conflict area.

the document also States that the UAV will be flying in three directions: to the South of Donetsk and to the Azov sea, East to the Russian-Ukrainian border, and westward in the direction of the line of contact.

Kyiv authorities began in April in the East of Ukraine military operation against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat residents. According to the UN fifteen October, victims of the military conflict in the East of Ukraine became more 3, 7 thousands of civilians, more than 9 thousand were injured body. With the mediation of the OSCE and Russia agreed a truce. In General, it is observed, however, the parties periodically accuse each loved one in its violation.

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