The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine said that the withdrawal of heavy weapons in the Donbass conflict zone has not been completed yet, according to a report published by OSCE on Sunday.
"Despite claims that the withdrawal of heavy weapons was complete, the SMM observed the following weapons movements in areas that are in violation of the withdrawal lines according to the Minsk Package: two main battle tanks T-72 on a flat-bed truck travelling west through Shakhtarsk; a convoy of four armoured vehicles and 11 T-72 tanks proceeding east through Zuhres," the report reads.
The document also says that a SMM drone detected a concentration of ten battle tanks of unknown type and 27 armored vehicles in the city of Komsomolskoye, south of Donetsk, as well as four self-propelled artillery systems one kilometer south-west of Vasylivka.
Both Ukrainian Armed Forces and Russian Armed Forces personnel at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) at the Donetsk railway station told the SMM that there had been no ceasefire violations during the night of June 18-19. Since 13:00 June 19 the SMM observed 144 explosions during a four-and-a-half period.
At the JCCC headquarters in government-controlled Soledar, the SMM was presented two ceasefire violations logbooks.
The report also says that the security situation was tense in Shirokino. According to the SMM, in the west part of the town mortar fire and various explosions were heard.
"The SMM revisited multiple Ukrainian Armed Forces and “DPR” heavy weapons holding areas, and visited one new Ukrainian Armed Forces heavy weapons holding area, the locations of which are in compliance with the withdrawal lines according to the Minsk Package," the report adds.
SMM representatives also reported that one Ukrainian Armed Forces site, which previously held six 122-mm howitzers, had no weapons present.
The mission also visited one DPR site, six out of 12 howitzers and four out of nine 120-mm mortars previously observed were missing.
