MOSCOW, February 26. /TASS/. The OSCE monitoring mission has arrived in the village of Yelenovka village south of Donetsk to monitor heavy weapons withdrawal, the Defense Ministry of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk said on Thursday.

"They have already arrived in Yelenovka to monitor weapons withdrawal. We are pulling out two fully armed Ural vehicles and six Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers," a ministry spokesman said.

The OSCE monitoring mission in Ukraine earlier confirmed withdrawal of several heavy weapons militia convoys.