On Monday, February 9, the OSCE special observation mission in Ukraine reported:
“The Ukrainian major general who heads the Ukrainian side of the joint control center on a ceasefire and the Russian major general who represents the Russian armed forces in the center told the media of a Russian initiative to establish a demilitarized zone in the east of Ukraine. The information was sent to Russian and Ukrainian headquarters for further discussion,” the report says.
The proposal of the creation of de-militarized zone in south-eastern Ukraine had been sent to the Ukrainian and Russian Armed Forces General Staffs.
