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Contact Group on Ukraine Agrees Heavy Weaponry Pullout in Donbass

© AP Photo / Evgeniy MaloletkaUkrainian tanks stand in the yard of an apartment block in Avdiivka, eastern Ukraine. Fighting in the area around the town between Kiev forces and local militia escalated last week.
Ukrainian tanks stand in the yard of an apartment block in Avdiivka, eastern Ukraine. Fighting in the area around the town between Kiev forces and local militia escalated last week. - Sputnik International
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The Contact Group on Ukraine agreed the withdrawal of banned heavy weaponry from the contact line in conflict-hit eastern Ukraine, according to a source.

Train cars with coal at the Donetsk railway station. In early January, Ukrainian radicals who earlier participated in the fighting in the Donbass started a blockade against the Donetsk People's Republic - Sputnik International
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Contact Group on Ukraine reached on Wednesday a new agreement on the withdrawal of banned heavy weaponry from the contact line in conflict-hit eastern Ukraine, a source at the talks told Sputnik.

"The sides agreed today to withdraw heavy weaponry from the contact line," the source said.

According to the source, the dates and details of the pullout are still being discussed, but a preliminary agreement envisions the complete withdrawal by March 5-6.

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