The Ukrainian head Petro Poroshenko said that eight days was the deadline for withdrawal of heavy equipment in the Donbass, this is one of the key dates of the Minsk agreement, which are counted deadlines of its other provisions.
Signed in mid-February in Minsk document assumes (2nd paragraph) that the parties to the conflict are obliged for 14 days to withdraw heavy weapons from the line of contact, creating a security zone. Date of completion of withdrawal of troops then used to calculate the timing of the exchange of prisoners and start a dialogue about the political status of Donbass.
"After eight days, when the term removal technology, for 4 days must be freed all the hostages, who illegally held by the militants," said Poroshenko Council meeting on national security and defence on Thursday, as quoted in the presidential press service.
Dialogue on local elections in the Donbass and its status shall begin on the subsequent days after the allotment of weapons, exchange of prisoners shall terminate on the fifth day.
Poroshenko 27 February said that the Ukrainian Military launched the 1st phase of the diversion of arms. The self-proclaimed head of Donetsk Alexander Zakharchenko said on 12 March that the diversion of arms of Kiev remained two days.
dialogues " channel four ", held on 12 February, took place against a background of a sharp aggravation of the situation in the Donbass, instigated by the Ukrainian law enforcers who, having increased strength, began to storm the position of the militia. According to the results of the meeting of the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany adopted a package of measures involving, for example, a cease-fire in the Donbass with fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of a security zone.
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