Eleven weeks have passed since the beginning of the truce in eastern Ukraine. Triage’s updates’ purpose is to provide a report on the implementation status of the first three point of Minsk II agreement:

1.      Immediate and full ceasefire and its strict fulfilment as of 00.00 (Kiev time) on February 15.

2.    Pull-out of all heavy weapons by both sides to equal distance to create a security zone on minimum 50 kilometres apart for artillery of 100mm calibre or more, of 70km for MLRS and 140 kilometres for MLRS Tornado-S, Uragan, Smerch and tactical missile systems Tochka U.

3.      Monitoring and verification of ceasefire regime and pull-out of heavy weapons by OSCE.

Ten weeks have passed since the beginning of the truce in eastern Ukraine. Triage’s updates’ purpose is to provide a report on the implementation status of the first three point of Minsk II agreement:

1.      Immediate and full ceasefire and its strict fulfilment as of 00.00 (Kiev time) on February 15.

2.      Pull-out of all heavy weapons by both sides to equal distance to create a security zone on minimum 50 kilometres apart for artillery of 100mm calibre or more, of 70km for MLRS and 140 kilometres for MLRS Tornado-S, Uragan, Smerch and tactical missile systems Tochka U.

3.      Monitoring and verification of ceasefire regime and pull-out of heavy weapons by OSCE.

Eight weeks have passed since the beginning of the truce in eastern Ukraine. Triage’s updates’ purpose is to provide a report on the implementation status of the first three point of Minsk II agreement:

1.      Immediate and full ceasefire and its strict fulfilment as of 00.00 (Kiev time) on February 15.

2.      Pull-out of all heavy weapons by both sides to equal distance to create a security zone on minimum 50 kilometres apart for artillery of 100mm calibre or more, of 70km for MLRS and 140 kilometres for MLRS Tornado-S, Uragan, Smerch and tactical missile systems Tochka U.

3.      Monitoring and verification of ceasefire regime and pull-out of heavy weapons by OSCE.

Seven weeks have passed since the beginning of the truce in eastern Ukraine. Triage’s updates’ purpose is to provide a report on the implementation status of the first three point of Minsk II agreement:

1.      Immediate and full ceasefire and its strict fulfilment as of 00.00 (Kiev time) on February 15.

2.      Pull-out of all heavy weapons by both sides to equal distance to create a security zone on minimum 50 kilometres apart for artillery of 100mm calibre or more, of 70km for MLRS and 140 kilometres for MLRS Tornado-S, Uragan, Smerch and tactical missile systems Tochka U..

3.      Monitoring and verification of ceasefire regime and pull-out of heavy weapons by OSCE.

Six weeks have passed since the beginning of the truce in eastern Ukraine. Triage’s updates’ purpose is to provide a report on the implementation status of the first three point of Minsk II agreement:

1.      Immediate and full ceasefire and its strict fulfilment as of 00.00 (Kiev time) on February 15.

2.      Pull-out of all heavy weapons by both sides to equal distance to create a security zone on minimum 50 kilometres apart for artillery of 100mm calibre or more, of 70km for MLRS and 140 kilometres for MLRS Tornado-S, Uragan, Smerch and tactical missile systems Tochka U.

3.      Monitoring and verification of ceasefire regime and pull-out of heavy weapons by OSCE.

Five weeks have passed since the beginning of the truce in eastern Ukraine. Triage’s updates’ purpose is to provide a report on the implementation status of the first three point of Minsk II agreement:

1.      Immediate and full ceasefire and its strict fulfilment as of 00.00 (Kiev time) on February 15.

2.      Pull-out of all heavy weapons by both sides to equal distance to create a security zone on minimum 50 kilometres apart for artillery of 100mm calibre or more, of 70km for MLRS and 140 kilometres for MLRS Tornado-S, Uragan, Smerch and tactical missile systems Tochka U.

3.      Monitoring and verification of ceasefire regime and pull-out of heavy weapons by OSCE.

Four weeks have passed since the beginning of the truce in eastern Ukraine. Triage’s updates’ purpose is to provide a report on the implementation status of the first three point of Minsk II agreement:

1.Immediate and full ceasefire and its strict fulfilment as of 00.00 (Kiev time) on February 15.

2.Pull-out of all heavy weapons by both sides to equal distance to create a security zone on minimum 50 kilometres apart for artillery of 100mm calibre or more, of 70km for MLRS and 140 kilometres for MLRS Tornado-S, Uragan, Smerch and tactical missile systems Tochka U.

3.Monitoring and verification of ceasefire regime and pull-out of heavy weapons by OSCE.

Minsk agreements were signed on February 11. This is the first of a series of weekly updates aimed to describe the implementation status of the first three crucial point of the agreement:

1.      Immediate and full bilateral ceasefire (to take effect from 00:00 local time on February 15),

2.      Withdrawal of all heavy weapons by both sides,

3.      Effective monitoring and verification regime for the ceasefire and withdrawal of heavy weapons.

The killing of Boris Nemtsov, occurred on February 27 in Moscow, brought a thorny issue back to the public attention, namely the Russian military involvement in Ukrainian crisis. Accusations and denials have been continuously following one another since the beginning of the fighting. 

The web is bouncing this piece of news: Italian warships, included the amphibious vessel San Giorgio, left Italy and are now moving toward Libya.

Theoretically speaking, the purpose is to carry out a military exercise known as operation Mare Aperto, which has been performed since early ‘90es. 

It could be argued that some kind of “shadow objective” is to simply “show the muscles” given the chaotic situation in Libya, quite a common practice as proved, for example, by NATO’s drills in the Baltic republics, by Russian exercises behind Ukrainian border and by Turkish or Greek exercises in the Aegean Sea.