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24 of July, 23:01

Poroshenko and Biden discussed the withdrawal of heavy weapons in the Donbass
The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko had agreed on the phone with Vice President Joe Biden consensus with the militia of Donbass about the withdrawal of heavy weapons with a calibre of not More than 100 mm.
Poroshenko informed the American side about the results of yesterday's conversation in the Normandy format, as well as the results of the negotiations of the Trilateral contact group on 21 June in Minsk, such as the achievement of consensus on the withdrawal of heavy weapons with a calibre of 100 mm and create a 30-kilometer demilitarized zone on the line of contact under control of the OSCE, which should provide a real ceasefire ", notified on the Internet office of the President of Ukraine." The interlocutors discussed the issues of military-technical cooperation between Ukraine and the USA, as well as the prospects of establishing an international Tribunal in the case of shoot-down of Malaysia airlines MH17 ", - is informed in the report. Poroshenko expressed the hope to receive the next tranche of the IMF, briefing on the signing of the latter act, which opens up the possibility to continue payment ". On Tuesday at the command headquarters of the militia told that removing the equipment from the outskirts of Gorlovka, Donetsk people's Republic completed the withdrawal of combat equipment up to a caliber of 100 mm from the contact line in Donbas. According to the militia, from the line of contact in Donbas withdrawn about 150 armored vehicles of the caliber of 100 mm. Also on Tuesday, stated that According to the reached in Minsk arrangements, weapons controlled by the Kiev military in the Donbass was given to the required distance.



simultaneously, the first day of the week the Deputy head of mission Alexander hug said that " the OSCE yesterday was not observed after the challenge, the mission observed the movement of tanks and other heavy equipment from the DNR and LNR." This is important because we don't know where these weapons ended", - has specified the hug. Explaining This, the Deputy commander of the corps of the Ministry of defence DND Eduard Baturin said that the Ministry of defense of the Donetsk national Republic surprised by the statement of the OSCE. In Kiev the statement of the DPR and LPR on the start of the diversion of arms called "baseless" and described as " part of the information war ". Moreover, the Military under the pretext of attacks from militias scared to return to positions in the Donbass weapons with a caliber greater than 100 mm.

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