War in Ukraine: army and separatists now want heavy weapons … – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

      

 
 
 
 
 
     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         

 
 
 
 
 
          Pro-Russian separatists sit near Luhansk on a tank.
     

 
                                           
 
 
     
     
     
         
         
                                                             

pro-Russian separatists and government forces in the disputed eastern Ukraine have agreed in writing to the withdrawal of heavy weapons. “The paper was signed at night. All agreed and affirmed that to run the two week period beginning on 22 February, “separatist spokesman Eduard Bass urine said on Sunday in Donetsk. But because of a holiday preparations and he expects that the deduction only from Tuesday to “visible” will. “This requires the observance of the cease-fire,” said Bass urine.

                         
         
         
                                                             
                                 

The Ukrainian army confirmed the agreement. “The documents for the beginning of the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the entire front line were signed,” stated General Oleksandr Rosmasnin.

                         
         
         
                                                             

The trigger is part of the peace agreement which the parties had concluded last week in Minsk. Thus, the scale at two weeks step should actually have already begun. However, an attempt by the pro-Russian rebels had on the strategically important city Debaltseve this prevented.

                         
         
         
                                                             

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will examine the trigger, urine Bass said. “OSCE observers want to randomly visit certain areas,” said the spokesman separatists. The rebels announced after the exchange of nearly 200 prisoners on Saturday another such step both sides. “It will take place in the near future, maybe next week,” said separatist leader Denis Puschilin. An exchange “all against all”, he did not rule out.

                         
         
         
                                                             

Overshadowed were the developments by an explosion in the city of Kharkov in the north-east of Ukraine, in which several people were injured. About deaths were initially different information. It has come at a memorial service for soldiers to detonation, the fight against the pro-Russian separatists, told the television station “112″.

                         
         
         
                                                             

The Home Office classified the explosion as a terrorist attack. However, the backgrounds were initially unclear. Special forces carried out an “anti-terrorist operation” in the metropolis. “Four participants in the blast were arrested and many weapons including a grenade launcher, secured,” the Security Council in Kiev said on Sunday with local media said.

                         
         
         
                                                             

Due to the detonation to have been a self-made explosive device, according to initial investigations. At the explosion had occurred at a “March of the unit” pro-government forces. Several times it was in Kharkiv, the second largest city in the country, and come in other predominantly Russian-speaking cities for attacks, but where usually only damage was incurred.

                         
         
         
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

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On Saturday evening were as agreed in the Treaty of Minsk first prisoners were exchanged. This was confirmed by a representative of the National Security Council on Sunday morning on his Facebook page. He published there a list of 139 Ukrainian soldiers. They were released on Saturday night in a village near the separatist stronghold Luhansk, Reuters reporter observed. This was done in exchange for 52 fighters of the insurgents.

                         
         
         
                                                             

With a “March of Dignity” will remember the pro-Western mass protests on the Maidan (Independence Square) in Kiev a year ago on a Sunday afternoon of more than 100 dead Ukraine. Guests President Petro Poroshenko expects about President Joachim Gauck and the EU Council President Donald Tusk.

                                                                             
 
  

 
 
 
                       

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