Special monitoring mission of the OSCE issued a report which indicated that on Sunday, November 2, under fire hit the Unmanned aerial vehicle of this organization, which was carrying out flight over the territory of Donetsk region.
the report States that the incident occurred on 2 November in 2 and a half miles North-East of the settlement of Sorokino, to the East of the line of contact. The drone of the OSCE, at an elevation of approximately 1, 5 thousand Meters, recorded on earth armored personnel carrier and two trucks " Ural ", which were in structures similar to the checkpoint, RIA " Novosti ". According to the document, the person in a protective form, removed the tarp from one of the trucks, and then installed from there antiaircraft guns opened fire on the drone. None of the shots hit me, the statement reads. A trial launch of the first unmanned aerial vehicles that are required to monitor the ceasefire in the East of Ukraine, took place on 23 October. The OSCE reported that the UAV will be flying in three directions: to the South of Donetsk and to the Azov sea, eastward to the Russian-Ukrainian border, and westward in the direction of the line of contact. However, in DND told that " reserves the right " to shoot down unmanned aerial devices, which are obliged to act in behalf of the OSCE observers, because they will not be able to distinguish them from aircraft military power of Ukraine, but mainly because of fears that the information collected by the devices, will be available to the Ukrainian military and will bear the risk of the militia. At the same time the militia told that they will not deliberately to hunt drones OSCE and welcome the participation of Russian unmanned aerial vehicles, monitoring the situation ".


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