Observers of the OSCE mission, together with representatives of Kyiv and DND visited checkpoint on the border with the Russian Federation "Novoazovsk" in order to demonstrate that heavy weapons allotted, reports journalist Last news from the event.

The self-proclaimed authorities of the DNI and the LC told that it has completed the withdrawal of weapons from the line of contact in the Donbass 4 March. The eighteenth of March, the head of the Ministry of defence of Ukraine Pavel Lebedev said that Kiev has also withdrawn from the line of contact in the Donbass all heavy weapons.

"We plan these checks not only on the official crossings and across the boundary line. It should be not a single action but a continuous testing ", - said Deputy head of the monitoring mission of the OSCE Alexander hug.

He has supplemented his words what is expected inspection of the surrounding areas, including industrial areas and railway lines, in order to finally confirm that the heavy weapons reserved.

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.


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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