STANYTSIA LUHANSKA. June 30 (Interfax) - The self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) militia has signaled its readiness to disengage forces and hardware in the Stanytsia Luhanska area, an Interfax correspondent reported on Friday.
The commander of the LPR militia unit stationed at the Stanytsia Luhanska checkpoint fired a white flare indicating the militia's readiness to begin the disengagement process.
"OSCE monitors stationed on the Ukrainian side recorded our signal flare and said it was perfectly visible from the other side," LPR militia spokesman Andrei Marochko told reporters.
The Ukrainian army has ten minutes to fire a flare in order to start the disengagement. At the end of the withdrawal, the sides are due to fire red flares, which would mark the disengagement's end.