Sentence examples for weapons ceasefire from inspiring English sources

Although Donetsk and Luhansk leaders said they had begun pulling back weapons, ceasefire monitors from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe said on Thursday they had not yet seen evidence of a full withdrawal.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) haves said that its monitors continued to observe ceasefire violations, including the use of heavy weapons, tanks and smaller-calibre weapons.

These weapons had been stored there pursuant to the March 1994 ceasefire agreement.

Under the Minsk ceasefire deal signed in February both sides were supposed to pull heavy weapons back from the conflict zone.

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Since the bloody fall of Debaltseve, fighting has essentially continued along the frontline, albeit without the indiscriminate use of heavy artillery - as part of the ceasefire any weapons with a gauge over 100mm must be withdrawn 50 kilometers (31 miles) away from the frontline.

The ceasefire and weapons pullback is to be monitored by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

Last month, Ake Sellstrom and his team of 20 weapons inspectors negotiated a ceasefire between the warring parties in Damascus and set off for Mou'adamiya, in the suburb of Ghouta, to check whether reports of a chemical weapon attack were true.

The government effectively ignored a U.N.-brokered ceasefire, using heavy weapons to batter civilian areas.

Under the truce, both sides are meant to observe a ceasefire, withdraw heavy weapons from the frontline by 3 March and carry out a prisoner exchange.