The Ukrainian military from the electronic warfare battalion suppress the signal of the control channels of the unmanned aerial vehicles of the OSCE mission in the area of the settlements of Svetlodarsk and Zolote in the Donbass, stated in his Telegram channel People’s Militia of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic.
“So, in the areas of N. p. Svetlodarsk and Zolote mobile groups of the 20th EW Battalion, using the Bukovel-AD stations, suppressed the signals of the OSCE mission’s UAV control channels in order to prevent the observers from opening the military equipment stationed in these areas, ”the message says.
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OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in his report dated February 14 confirms the episodes with interference, but does not specify who exactly created them. The OSCE uses drones to monitor the truce in the Donbass.
At the end of January, the head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, already said that Ukraine was using electronic warfare installations to hide the movement of its troops from OSCE observers. According to Pasechnik, the Ukrainian military is jamming the signal of drones that the OSCE uses to assess the situation on the line of contact.