UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) – The Russian envoy called for the constant presence of monitors from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) at the line of contact as well as for video monitoring of Ukrainian warehouses.
"The last report of the [OSCE] Special Monitoring Mission notes that only 9 percent of the declared weaponry remains at Ukrainian warehouses. In other words, 91 percent of what should be in the warehouses, they have taken out. Most of the missing weaponry has been spotted on the frontline," Churkin said at the UN Security Council on Thursday.
Kiev launched a special military operation in Ukraine’s southeast in April 2014, after local residents refused to recognize the new Ukrainian authorities, which came to power as a result of a coup.
In February 2015, a peace agreement was signed between Ukraine’s conflicting sides in the Belarusian capital, Minsk. The deal stipulates a full ceasefire, a weapons withdrawal from the line of contact in eastern Ukraine, an all-for-all prisoner exchange and constitutional reforms, which would give a special status to DPR and LPR (self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics).
