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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that the Ukrainian side will start the withdrawal of weapons under 100mm in caliber from the contact line in Donbas.

“The main result of this meeting was several key important decisions. The first decision – we start the pullback of light weapons, begin it literally on the next day, we have agreed on an accurate procedure,” Poroshenko told reporters upon the results of the meeting of the leaders of the ‘Normandy Quartet’ states (Ukraine, France, Germany and Russia) in Paris on Oct. 2.