OSCE spots tanks, mortars and howitzers in Russian-occupied Donbas

The military hardware was seen near Myrne, Kruhlyk and in Chervona Poliana.

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The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine has reported it spotted tanks, mortars and howitzers in Russian-occupied Donbas.

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"Beyond the respective withdrawal lines but outside designated storage sites in non-government-controlled areas, on October 14, an SMM mini-UAV spotted 21 tanks (11 T-64 and ten T-72), 12 mortars (2B11 Sani, 120mm), nine self-propelled howitzers (2S1 Gvozdika, 122mm), 12 towed howitzers (D-30 Lyagushka, 122mm), six anti-tank guns (MT-12 Rapira, 100mm) and a surface-to-air missile system (9K35), all at a known training area near Myrne (28km south-west of Luhansk)," the OSCE SMM said in an update based on information received as of 19:30 Kyiv time on October 15, 2018.

"On October 15, the SMM saw one tank (T-64) at a known training area near Kruhlyk (31km south-west of Luhansk) and nine towed howitzers (2A65 Msta-B, 152mm) in Chervona Poliana (39km south-west of Luhansk)," reads the report.

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