On Saturday, the Ukrainian party started to pull back guns from the contact line in Donbas, press secretary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Vladyslav Selezniov said.

"Today the anti-terrorist operation forces [ATO] got down to the second part of the first stage of the removal of the arms under 100mm caliber from the contact line in Donbas. The guns are withdrawing on the distance prescribed by the Minsk agreements," he said on Saturday.