OSCE mission claims another fire incident occurred with their drone in Donetsk region

11:33, 04.12.2014 1 min read

The Special Monitoring Mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE SMM) in Ukraine has reported that their drone again was fired in Donetsk region.

"At approximately 1400hrs an SMM unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was in an area three kilometres South-East of Pavlopil (25km north-east of Mariupol), an area of on-going fighting. It spotted a military-style truck with six people around it. Almost immediately eight to 10 rounds – assessed to have been from a ZU-23 (a 23mm anti-aircraft gun) – were fired at the SMM UAV," reads a relative mission's report dated December 2, 2014.

The observers said that the UAV wasn't hit and is able to fulfill its tasks on monitoring the situation in the conflict zone.