International monitors deployed in rebel-held eastern Ukraine have reported seeing a large convoy of military vehicles and personnel moving westward from the border.<br /><br />The revelation was made by the deputy head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.<br /><br />“The OSCE special monitoring has witnessed and observed at three locations columns on the territory controlled by the rebels,” said Alexander Hug at a news conference in Donestsk.<br /><br />“The OSCE special monitoring mission cannot verify or comment upon where these columns origin from,” he added.<br /><br />Ukraine and the West say the new columns of unmarked soldiers and weapons seen in the rebel-held territory this week are Russian. <br /><br />Russia denies sending weapons and soldiers to eastern Ukraine and says the reports are part of an information war against the Kremlin.
