LUHANSK. May 8 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian side has once again disrupted an attempt to withdraw forces and hardware from the contact line near Stanytsia Luhanska, the delegation of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire in Donbas (JCCC) said.
According to the LPR delegation, the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission notified Luhansk that it had not received a notification from the Ukrainian side on its readiness for the disengagement of forces on May 8 and other dates.
The DPR delegation recalled that on May 4, Kyiv envoy Leonid Kuchma said at a meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk that the disengagement of forces and hardware could take place near Stanytsia Luhanska on May 8, if there would be no new shelling in this section by this time.
According to the OSCE, the latest ceasefire violation in the aforementioned section for the disengagement was recorded on April 30.
Luhansk said at negotiations in Minsk that it is ready for the disengagement of forces and hardware, if it receives Ukraine's relevant notification.
LPR representatives stated its readiness for the disengagement of forces and hardware near Stanytsia Luhanska 76 times and fired a white signal flare meaning militiamen's readiness to withdraw forces 21 times. "The Ukrainian side has not notified about its readiness for the disengagement," the LPR delegation said.