The representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic in the contact group, the head of the republic’s Foreign Ministry, Natalya Nikonorova, said that the DPR was ready to begin the withdrawal of forces in the Petrovsky district in Donbass on November 4.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday that on November 4, Ukrainian security forces and militias should begin a withdrawal of forces on a site in the Petrovsky district in the Donbass. On Friday, the head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Andrii Zagorodniuk said that Kiev was awaiting a review of the date of the withdrawal of forces in the Petrovsky area in the Donbass, since shelling allegedly was recorded there.