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24 of July, 19:30

Hg: OSCE SMM waiting for information about storage equipment in the Donbass
The OSCE observers are waiting for information about where they will be taken away from the line of contact in Donbas technique to assure the fact of the allotment, said Deputy head of the Special monitoring mission (SMM) of the OSCE in Ukraine Alexander Hg.

Militia Donetsk and Lugansk national republics on Sunday in the hands of individual has begun the removal of equipment and weapons of a calibre of not more than 100 millimetres from the line of contact. Deputy head of the Special monitoring mission (SMM) of the OSCE Alexander Hg above said Fins news that the mission had detected movement of heavy weapons from the militias from the line of contact in Donbas, but doesn't think it's a diversion of weapons.

"We are seeing the movement of tanks and other small caliber weapons from the DNR, and We spoke about these movements, but the movement of equipment is somewhat different from the full allotment of weapons. What we need is a genuine process of allotment, which will enable observation mission to assure not Only the process of removal of equipment, and the Fact that the technique is allotted, " said the Hg Last news on the phone.

according to him, observers need information, " where weapons were on the line of contact which paths will be used in order for them to take, and where this technique will be ".

"Only in this case may be to secure the withdrawal of equipment. We must make sure that the technique not Only moves and not Just allocated, it remains allocated, Only in this case the stabilization and de-escalation on the contact line possible ", - said the Deputy head of the OSCE mission.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict were about 6, 5 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed as well as among them during the meeting in Minsk of the contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.

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