Marchuk: OSCE SMM confirm disengagement of forces near Petrivske

"The OSCE mission has checked and confirmed this. A group of Ukrainian officers of the Joint Control and Coordination Centre, as well as OSCE mission observers will remain there for round-the-clock monitoring," Marchuk wrote on his Facebook page on Friday. According to him, over nearly a month, not a single Ukrainian soldier has been killed or injured in the area where disengagement of forces is taking place near the towns of Zolote and Petrivske. Earlier on Friday, Head of Donetsk Region Military-Civilian Administration Pavlo Zhebrivsky said Ukrainian army units started to withdraw from the contact line between the villages of Bohdanivka and Petrivske in Donetsk region and are expected to complete this process on Sunday, October 9. Later, presidential military spokesman Andriy Lysenko reported that the government troops had drawn back at the distance of one kilometre in the area of Bohdanivka and Petrivske.