Donetsk, May 19 – DAN. Ukrainian military employed electronic warfare systems against OSCE SMM unmanned aerial vehicles in the past 24 hours, the DPR People's Militia said.

"To prevent the mission from spotting banned equipment of 10th and 128th brigades of the Ukrainian army the military extensively used Bukovel-AD jamming systems to interfere with navigation and control channels belonging to mobile groups of 20th and 305th separate battalions outside Stepanovka, Zaitsevo, Klinovoye, Shirokino, Vodyanoye," the report reads.

The SMM suspended flights of its long-rage UAVs following Ukrainian 20th separate electronic warfare battalion downed one of the drones outside Konstantinovka.

Employing combat aviation and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in a 30 km wide zone along the line of contact is banned under Article 7 of Minsk Memorandum, with the sole exception of OSCE SMM UAVs. *ot