The Russian-controlled militants in the Donbas are actively using coronavirus quarantine restrictions as an excuse for denying access to monitors of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), while Russia continues its secret night convoys across the border quite unimpeded. Even if there is no direct proof that the most recently spotted cargo and military-type vehicles brought military technology, ammunition or other instruments of death into occupied Ukraine, it is reasonable to ask why else would such movements occur at night, on dirt roads, in places where there are no border crossing facilities nearby.
Recent reports of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) drones coming under gunfire in the non-government-controlled Donbas may have nothing to do with the convoys, but this would not be the first time that the long-range unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) had been jammed or downed after sighting military hardware crossing into militant-controlled Ukraine from Russia.