People’s Militia will withdraw armoured vehicles in three more directions – Basurin

Donetsk, July 21, the Donetsk News Agency

People’s Militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic plans to start withdrawing tanks and armoured vehicles from the disengagement line in three more directions, told Deputy Commander of Corps of the MoD DPR Eduard Basurin the DNA correspondent.

“Today the withdrawal will be carried out from three more directions. The OSCE observers and representatives of the Joint Center for Ceasefire Coordination and Control (JCCC) will be present on the scene”, — Basurin said.

Be reminded that the DPR withdrew five tanks and 77 APCs from the disengagement line on July 20. At that, as the Ministry of Defense stated, shelling by Ukrainian Armed Forces of People’s Militia positions in the area of locality Zaitsevo in the northern outskirt of Gorlovka occurred almost at once as soon as the armoured vehicles had been moved out.

Earlier, on July 18, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics announced the start of armoured vehicles of the caliber up to 100 mm withdrawal to the distance of 3 km from the contact line. The representatives of the Ministry of Defense stressed that “DPR armoured vehicles will remain only on the positions to the north of Donetsk and Debaltsevo – on the most tense segments of the disengagement line”.