Disengagement of troops in Petrivske being prepared for Nov 8

"We have already submitted a letter to the OSCE that we are beginning on the 7th [of November] and on the 8th [of November] we are actually disengaging if the ceasefire is not violated," he said at a briefing on Monday, November 4.

At the same time, he called a provocation a statement by Russian occupation troops and flares launched in Petrivske allegedly as a symbol of the beginning of the disengagement process.

The head of the Ukrainian side of the Joint Center for Control and Coordination, Oleksandr Borshchevsky, in turn, said that the disengagement of troops at the Petrivske-Bohdanivka site would take place only if the ceasefire is observed for seven days.

"Last shelling instances were recorded on the 29th and 30th [of October], which was confirmed in an OSCE SMM report for October 31, so starting on the 30th, after seven days, it will be November 6. [...] If the ceasefire for seven days is verified on [November] 7 and the OSCE SMM publishes a report, then from 12:00 on November 8, the [Ukrainian] Armed Forces, in the event of a ceasefire, will be able to practically initiate measures for the disengagement of forces and hardware at this site of the contact line," Borshchevsky said.

According to the OSCE SMM report for October 31, the last ceasefire violation by illegal armed formations of the Russian Federation at site No. 3 near Petrivske was recorded on October 30.

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