KHARTSYZK, Ukraine — Howitzers were moving away from the largest rebel-held city in eastern Ukraine, heading farther into separatist-controlled territory, and the rebels said they have begun a large-scale pullback of heavy weapons in line with an international peace plan.
That plan aims to form a wide buffer zone between separatists’ and Ukrainian forces’ artillery.
The pullback claim by Eduard Basurin, a top commander for rebels in the Donetsk region, couldn’t immediately be confirmed.
A rebel website cited Basurin as saying about 100 122-mm howitzers would be moved on Tuesday.
Michael Bociurkiw, a spokesman for the observer mission that is monitoring the fighting …read more
Source: National Post
