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Kiev Asks for More Time for Arms Pullout – LPR Envoy

© REUTERS / Gleb GaranichMembers of the Ukrainian armed forces and armoured personnel carriers are seen preparing to move as they pull back from Debaltseve region, near Artemivsk
Members of the Ukrainian armed forces and armoured personnel carriers are seen preparing to move as they pull back from Debaltseve region, near Artemivsk - Sputnik International
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Kiev has not yet fulfilled its part of the Minsk agreements regarding the withdrawal of heavy artillery from the line of contact. In its turn, the DPR forces have already removed 90 percent of its heavy weaponry.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Kiev insists that it needs more time for the withdrawal of heavy artillery from the line of contact in eastern Ukraine, the chief peace negotiator of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) said Friday.

"Ukraine's position is still unclear. Ukraine insists that it needs more time to withdraw heavy weaponry,” Vladislav Deinego told RIA Novosti.

Deinego insisted that the Minsk agreements should be followed by both sides.

"We insist that it is necessary to follow to the set of measures that was signed to the smallest details," he said.

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Kiev and the militia of Ukraine's eastern breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk initially agreed to withdraw heavy weaponry from the contact line in September last year, when a ceasefire deal and a memorandum specifying its implementation were signed in Minsk, Belarus.

Despite the truce agreement, fighting continued in the regions, intensifying greatly in the first weeks of 2015.

In a bid to find a solution to the 10-month conflict in Ukraine’s southeast, the country’s president met with Russian, German and French leaders for talks in Minsk earlier in February.

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The four leaders' marathon meeting resulted in the signing of a new, urgent ceasefire deal, and Ukraine’s warring sides again vowed to withdraw heavy weapons.

Kiev later stated that the pullback would begin only after sporadic attacks ceased entirely.

On Wednesday, a spokesman for Ukraine’s armed forces said Kiev had begun the withdrawal of heavy weapons along the entire contact line, while Donetsk militia said that it had withdrawn 90 percent of its heavy weaponry.

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