Ukraine has called on the participants in the Trilateral Contact Group for settling the crisis in Donbas to sign a plan on withdrawing tanks, mortars, and artillery guns smaller than 100 mm in caliber.
Darya Olifer, spokesperson for former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma who represents Kyiv in the Contact Group talks, said following a Contact Group video conference on April 14 that Ukraine could not acknowledge that the situation in Donbas was de-escalating.
Six Ukrainian military servicemen have been killed and 12 others injured, and over 100 instances of shelling have been recorded over the past 24 hours.
“In the current situation, Ukraine proposes, in particular, that a plan be signed on withdrawing tanks, mortars, and guns smaller than 100 mm in caliber,” Olifer said.
“This provision would follow up on an initiative by the Normandy Quartet foreign ministers they had aired at a meeting in Berlin on April 13,” Olifer said on Facebook on April 14.
