12:12 05.11.2015

Militants finalize withdrawal of weapons with calibers under 100mm – JCCC

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The self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics have finalized the withdrawal of weapons with calibers under 100mm, a representative of the Joint Center for Control and Coordination has said.

"The DPR and the LPR have finalized the arms withdrawal consistent with the supplement to the Minsk agreements. Only small arms and armored vehicles - infantry combat vehicles and armored personnel carriers - are left on the contact line," Russian co-chair of the JCCC Khasan Kaloyev told reporters.

In his words, the arms withdrawal was conducted simultaneously with the Ukrainian side.

An Interfax correspondent reported from the ground on Thursday that a convoy of trucks carrying nine 82mm mortars withdrawn by the DPR from the contact line, which was accompanied by JCCC and OSCE officers, had arrived at the weapon storage site in Zelene in the Illovaisk district.

"The JCCC hopes that the OSCE will be able to complete ahead of time the verification of weapons with calibers under 100mm withdrawn by the DPR because the DPR has finalized the withdrawal ahead of schedule," Kaloyev said.

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