OSCE continues to observe presence of military equipment in residential areas in eastern Ukraine
OSCE observers continue to detect the military equipment positioned in the residential areas in eastern Ukraine as stated by the by the Deputy Head of the Special OSCE monitoring mission in the Donbas, Alexander Hug. In particular the military equipment of the separatists was detected in Novohryhorivka and Debaltseve. The information on the locations of the equipment was gathered by the OSCE UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles).
“Needless to say that where there are weapons there is violence,” said Hug.
Ukrainian Intelligence previously reported that there is a high likelihood that the separatists can begin a full scale offensive on August 4-8. The hostilities can intensify in the directions of Donetsk and Sloviansk.
On August 3, the Russian representatives from the Unified Ceasefire Monitoring Center in eastern Ukraine acknowledged for the first time the case of shelling by the separatists using heavy artillery banned by the Minsk agreements.