OSCE saw no military hardware, weaponry crossing from Russia to Ukraine – mission head


OSCE saw no military hardware, weaponry crossing from Russia to Ukraine ? mission head ? RT News


"No military hardware, weaponry or people bearing arms have crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border during nearly a year of observations, said Paul Picard, the chief of the OSCE monitoring mission deployed at border crossing points in Donetsk and Gukovo.

“We have not seen any military equipment crossing the Donetsk or Gukovo checkpoints,” Picard said at a press conference in Russia’s southern city of Rostov-on-Don. The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe observers have also “never seen people crossing the border with weapons. The border guard and customs strictly watch over this,” he added.

However according to Picard, unarmed people in camouflage clothing, some of them calling themselves “volunteers,” have been crossing the border in both directions on a daily basis. Some of them bore various types of insignia, including those of the self-proclaimed Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, which have been fighting Ukrainian government forces for over a year.

“From September 1 through August 4, we have observed 21,309 of these types of people crossing the border, that’s 63 per day or 441 per week, of which 94 percent are crossing the Donetsk checkpoint,” the OSCE mission head said in Russian."


There is of course 100s Km where the OSCE probably do not monitor. The spy satellites and drones will monitor those areas, but we have yet to see any validated proof.