Interfax: LPR promises to pull back artillery guns after OSCE confirms Ukrainian tanks withdrawal

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MOSCOW. Oct 6 (Interfax) – The militia of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic will begin the pullback of artillery systems immediately after the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) confirms the end of the pullback of tanks by the Ukrainian military, the LPR people’s militsiya headquarters told Interfax on Tuesday.

“It is needed to wait until the Ukrainian Armed Forces complete the first stage of the pullback. This fact should be confirmed by the OSCE and the Joint Control and Coordination Center. Then we will start the second stage which envisions the withdrawal of artillery,” the source said.

For his part, senior official of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic’s Defense Ministry Eduard Basurin told Interfax that the terms for the start of the tanks pullback in the DPR remain unchanged.

“We are still oriented on October 18 as the date for the start of the pullback,” Basurin said.

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