The use of heavy weapons in the May 9 celebrations, in Donetsk and Luhansk, will be a breach of the Minsk agreements, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) said.

Alexander Hug, deputy chief monitor of the OSCE SMM, said at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday that the OSCE will regard this as a breach of the Minsk agreements. He specified that the OSCE does not regard a parade as a breach of the Minsk agreements, but only believes the use of weapons would be a breach of the agreements.

At the same time, Hug said, according to the OSCE SMM Twitter account, that "Historical heritage important but heavy weapons in #Luhansk, #Donetsk cities are violations of Minsk & threat to people."