The Oct. 7 incident in the Luhansk region has become the theme of an urgent meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk, and the future of the arms withdrawal from the contact line in Donbas will depend on its decision, the Ukrainian General Staff has said.
“We immediately reported what happened at one of our strongholds in the ATO zone to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC), the OSCE SMM and personally Deputy Chief Monitor Alexander Hug. A decision was made in those consultations to hold an urgent meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group. We are now expecting a decision as to how we will act within the frameworks of the tasks the national political administration will set for us. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are prepared for any scenario,” Ukrainian General Staff press secretary Vladyslav Selezniov told Interfax on Oct. 8.
Verification of the truce is in progress, he said. “The OSCE representatives are working to check the locations where tanks have been withdrawn. We are planned to begin the pullback of weapons with calibers under 100mm tomorrow. This is the question of artillery systems,” Selezniov said.
