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Won’t pull back troops without full ceasefire, says Ukraine
Won’t Pull Back Troops Without Full Ceasefire, Says Ukraine. Ukraine insisted on Sunday that it would not pull back its troops from the frontline until all sides cease fire under a peace plan aimed at ending five months of bloodshed in the east.
Donetsk: Ukraine insisted on Sunday that it would not pull back its troops from the frontline until all sides cease fire under a peace plan aimed at ending five months of bloodshed in the east.
Kiev and pro-Russian rebels are supposed to pull back their forces and weaponry to create a 30-kilometre (20-mile) wide buffer zone in line with a reinforced truce deal agreed in Minsk yesterday. But heavy gunfire erupted around the eastern insurgent stronghold of Donetsk today, just hours after NATO's top military commander had said there was a ceasefire "in name only" on the ground.
National Security and Defence Council spokesman Andriy Lysenko said the first point agreed in the Belarussian capital referring to a mutual ceasefire had to be respected before the rest of the plan could be implemented. "But the first point has not yet been fulfilled, so we cannot speak about the other points," he said.
"If (Ukrainian forces) are withdrawn, it will be done simultaneously with the Russian troop withdrawal." The nine-point Minsk plan is meant to reinforce a truce forged on September 5 in a bid to stem fighting that has claimed nearly 3,000 lives since April and threatened Ukraine's very survival.A rebel who identified himself as a member of Donetsk People's Republic's military intelligence said Ukrainian forces were continuing to shoot on insurgent positions around the airport .
