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The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine has reported it spotted a significant accumulation of heavy weapons near the occupied village of Buhaivka in Donbas.

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"The SMM continued to monitor the withdrawal of weapons in implementation of the Memorandum and the Package of Measures and its Addendum. In violation of withdrawal lines in non-government-controlled areas, on May 20, an SMM mini-UAV spotted 15 self-propelled howitzers (2S1 Gvozdika, 122mm) and an anti-tank gun (MT-12 Rapira, 100mm) south-east of Buhaivka (37km south-west of Luhansk) (in the same area the UAV spotted about 60 armoured combat vehicles and other hardware)," the OSCE SMM said in an update as of May 21.

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It is also reported the following day, the SMM saw four MLRS (BM-21) near Novoamvrosiivske (56km east of Donetsk).

"Beyond withdrawal lines but outside of designated storage sites in non-government-controlled areas, on May 20, an SMM mini-UAV spotted 21 tanks (T-64), four surface-to-air missile systems (9K35 Strela-10) and seven mortars (2B11 Sani, 120mm) near Buhaivka (at the same location of the abovementioned weapons)," the monitors said.