European security watchdog OSCE said numerous anti-aircraft rounds were fired at one of its drones monitoring a shaky truce in eastern Ukraine, reports Reuters.
The incident occurred on the same day as the rebels elected a separatist leadership in eastern Ukraine in a vote which was denounced by Kiev and the West and further deepened a standoff with Russia over the future of the former Soviet state.It took place after the drone, flying east of the town of Mariupol at a height of about 1,520 meters (5,000 feet), spotted an armored personnel carrier at what appeared to be a checkpoint, the Vienna-based OSCE said in a statement.The rounds were fired from an anti-aircraft gun on the back of a civilian truck parked about 150 meters away, the OSCE said.
The incident occurred on the same day as the rebels elected a separatist leadership in eastern Ukraine in a vote which was denounced by Kiev and the West.
It took place after the drone, flying east of the town of Mariupol at a height of about 1,520 meters, spotted an armored personnel carrier at what appeared to be a checkpoint, the Vienna-based OSCE said in a statement.
The rounds were fired from an anti-aircraft gun on the back of a civilian truck parked about 150 meters away, the OSCE said, Reuters reports.
