BBC: Donbas war – Zelensky plans frontline troop withdrawal

By BBC.

Published Oct. 4, 2019. Updated Oct. 4 at 3:53 pm

A Ukrainian army soldier looks through a night vision device as he keeps watch in Zolote, eastern Ukraine, on Sept. 10, 2019. In the town, military positions of Ukrainian soldiers and Russian-backed troops are sometimes as close as 50 meters from each other.

Photo by Oleg Petrasiuk

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky plans to pull Ukrainian troops back all along the front line in the east if Russian-backed rebels reciprocate.

The announcement came from his foreign minister, Vadym Prystaiko, on Ukrainian TV. Such a pull-back has already happened in one frontline village.