DHAKA: Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine claimed Saturday to have completed their withdrawal of heavy weapons, in line with a February ceasefire deal.

‘Today is the last day of the weapons withdrawal,’ Edouard Bassourine, one of the rebel leaders told reporters in the town of Snizhne, where the separatists presented 120mm mortars removed from the frontline.

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