On Monday 27 February, the principal deputy chief monitor of the OSCE special monitoring mission to Ukraine, Alexander Hug, called for both sides to withdraw their heavy weapons in eastern Ukraine, and said that without this withdrawal there will be no change on the ground. According to the Minsk agreements of February 2015, these weapons should no longer be on the contact line.
"Unless the weapons are removed, the situation will not change”, Hug told a small group of journalists,...