LUHANSK. Oct 7 (Interfax) - Officials of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) have provided to monitors from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) information on the resumption of the withdrawal of forces from the contact line in Donbas in the Zolote area, Ivan Filiponenko, head of the press service for the People's Militia of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), said.
"In accordance with the disengagement plan, monitors of the OSCE monitoring mission have now been given full information on the upcoming disengagement by the Luhansk People's Republic," Filiponenko told reporters on Monday.
The LPR People's Militia does not see any obstacles to the resumption of the disengagement process on the disengagement section in Zolote, he said.
LPR officials are preparing to ensure the security of OSCE SMM monitors supervising the disengagement in the Zolote area, he said.
Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesperson Dmytro Hutsulyak told a briefing in Kyiv earlier on Monday that the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces had been fired upon in the area of the Zolote disengagement section by the militia of the self-proclaimed Donbas republics on Monday morning.
Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said later that the disengagement in Zolote and Petrivske, scheduled for Monday, had not started as these communities had been fired upon.
"As you remember, we agreed to begin the disengagement on the seventh day of ceasefire in this area," he said.