Officials meeting to advance the peace process in eastern Ukraine agreed that the warring parties would initiate a partial withdrawal of heavy weaponry from the battlefield.
The so-called contact group – consisting of Ukraine, the separatists its army has been fighting, Russia and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe – signed a pact on Sept. 21 covering three areas inside the conflict zone. The deal also bans the use of light arms in those areas, the group said after meeting in the Belarusian capital of Minsk.
