KIEV, Sept. 25 – Using the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine, members of illegal armed groups are stealing Ukrainian enterprises, leader of the Ukrainian section of the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) Major-General Borys Kremenetsky said at a meeting with representatives of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM).

The JCCC said that rebels are dismantling equipment and destroying metal structures of town-forming enterprises, plants and coalmines to sell it as scrap metal.