Ukrainian tanks leaving the Debaltseve region, Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists signed an agreement on the withdrawal of heavy weapons across the front line, thus complying with the Minsk agreements 2. The withdrawal is to last 14 days. But regular violations of the cease-fire threaten it. Kiev recognizes 44 rebel attacks in 24 hours, some near the port city of Mariupol, which seems to be the next target of the rebels.
Saturday, as required by the Minsk agreement of February 12, government forces and rebels exchanged nearly 200 prisoners. Inadequate gesture to the head of the operation to the government:
"We have a list of people unaccounted for, says Viktor Medvedchuk, they would be between 300 and 494 captured by the People's Republic of Donetsk and Lugansk the People's Republic. No one knows their fate, as if living better, we find them to be sure, but if they are dead? "
According to Kiev separatists
massing troops and weapons
in the southeast of the country and new Russian armored convoys
have crossed the border.
