“We agreed on a divorce of forces, but the current president (Ukraine. - RT ) can’t provide a divorce of military units and equipment - well, he can’t. Nationalist military units arrived there and publicly declared: if the army leaves this position, we will stand there. The army is not leaving, ”TASS quoted Putin as saying.
As the president noted, representatives of the self-proclaimed republics of Donbass have already several times given a signal of readiness for a separation of forces.
“This requires a manifestation of political will,” Putin said.
Earlier it was reported that the representatives of Kiev and Donetsk on October 11 will make a new attempt to withdraw forces and assets on the Petrovskoye-Bogdanovka section.
As Zelensky emphasized, the separation of forces in the Donbass should occur simultaneously.
On October 10, the LPR announced that the Ukrainian security forces again thwarted the withdrawal of forces.