The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Special Monitoring Mission (OSCE SMM) reports the process of pulling back weapons from the dividing line in Donbas in compliance with the Minsk agreements.

In the districts controlled by the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) the monitors have noticed the withdrawal of 30 main combat tanks (T-64 and T-72) from three districts, on three routes to two storages, as it was earlier announced to the mission, the OSCE SMM said in the October 4 report released by the OSCE press service on Monday.

Also on October 4 in the LPR combat training area near the settlement of Uspenka, 23 kilometers southwest of Luhansk, the OSCE SMM spotted 12 self-propelled howitzers (122mm 2S1 Gvozdika), the deployment of which corresponds to the pullback line. Meanwhile, at the LPR-controlled firing range near the settlement of Kruhlyk, 31 kilometers away from Luhansk, where the exercises were being held without a live fire drill, the monitors have spotted 17 tanks (T-64) on the same day.

Meanwhile, on October 4, the Ukrainian Armed Forces informed the OSCE SMM on the details of the route for the pullback of tanks in addition to the earlier provided information about arms depots, as well as weaponry which will be withdrawn under the Minsk agreements.

It was also reported that the OSCE SMM monitors have examined three places storing heavy weapons of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the location of which corresponded to the pullback line.

The monitors said that all previously spotted weapons were located in one area, several weapons were absent in two other areas.

Meanwhile, on the same day the OSCE SMM repeatedly visited two sites with heavy weapons of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR). Despite the fact that at both sites the number and types of weapons corresponded to the SMM data, the monitors found that a self-propelled artillery system (Gvozdika) was replaced with another one, the number of which did not correspond to the previously reported data.

Meanwhile, the SMM said that on October 4 a mission patrol was denied access to a storage site of DPR heavy weapons.