Poroshenko: smuggled weapons from Donbass returned APU

The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that 4, 5 thousands of weapons illegally exported outside the areas of special operations in the East, returned to the Ukrainian military.

before the interior Ministry of Ukraine reported many times about trying to take the weapons from the zone of special operations in the Donets basin. So, for example, in February the Ukrainian police claimed that through a checkpoint at the crossroads at the Kherson-Nova Kakhovka-Henichesk And Odessa-Melitopol-Novoazovsk identified more than ten cases of illicit transfer of arms, ammunition And explosives from the area of the special operation.

"I demand to strengthen coordination with other police (on the battle of illicit trafficking of weapons - ed.). The army now we have a big to accommodate all shooting enthusiasts. Any other shooters in the conclusion. And on my instructions, made the verification of the wealth of the stockpiling of weapons in different branches of the military power of Ukraine. We started the test, - 4, 5 thousands of weapons were immediately returned to equipped weapons room, where they tried to hide behind borders ATO, " Poroshenko said on Wednesday at the celebrations on the occasion of the anniversary of the SBU.

The Ukrainian authorities have taken in April of last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup of the region's residents. According to the final data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand people. The problem of Ukrainian settlement fall under negotiation in different formats, for example, at the meetings of the contact group in Minsk, under the mediation of the Russian Federation And the OSCE.

The next meeting of the contact group on 12 February ended with the adoption of a package of measures on execution of the Minsk agreements, involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbass from February fifteen, the withdrawal of heavy weapons And the development of the security zone. Soon after informing truce in the Donbass resumed shooting, the parties blame each other in violation of a "silence" And report that conduct Only return fire. Kiev is considering an appeal to the UN And the EU on the introduction in the Donbass peacekeepers.


dialogues " channel four ", held on 12 February, came amid a sharp aggravation of the situation in the Donbass, provoked by the Ukrainian security forces, who, having increased strength, began to storm the position of the militia. Following the meeting, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France And Germany have taken a set of measures involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbass from February fifteen, the withdrawal of heavy weapons And the development of the security zone.


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