The participants in the negotiations on settling the Ukraine crisis in Minsk have agreed that the Ukrainian government forces will pull back their heavy weapons from the current, actual frontline and the militia will do the same from the frontline defined by the Minsk memorandum of September 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.
“The second position, which I view as very important, is the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the contact line existing today by the Ukrainian forces and from the line set in the Minsk agreements of Sept. 19, 2014 by the Donbas militants,” Putin told journalists in summing up the negotiations’ outcomes on Feb. 12.
