Armed opponents of the Kyiv authorities have left the village of Shyrokyne in the Donetsk Oblast, Ukrainian Presidential Administration spokesman Oleksandr Motuzianyk has said.
“The situation has somewhat stabilized in the Mariupol sector,” he said at a press briefing on Friday. In the words of Motuzianyk, the militants have left Shyrokyne for Sakhanka and Bezimenne.
“Consistent with the Minsk agreements and the supplement to the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada resolution on definition of individual districts, cities, towns and villages in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions where a special local self-government procedure is established, this populated locality was due to be controlled by anti-terrorist operation forces,” the representative of Kyiv said.
The day before, the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic reported the pullout all of its troops from the populated locality of Shyrokyne in the Donetsk Oblast.
“All forces of the DPR army have left Shyrokyne. Shyrokyne is completely deserted today,” senior official of the DPR Defense Ministry Eduard Basurin said.
In his words, the OSCE mission was planning to monitor Shyrokyne.
“The OSCE is drawing up a plan to monitor the ceasefire regime in Shyrokyne,” Basurin said.
The Ukrainian side confirmed on the same day at the Joint Control and Coordination Center (JCCC) that all the militants had left Shyrokyne and taken positions east of the village.
