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Ukraine has pulled put a larger part of its heavy weapons from the line of contact in eastern Ukraine, President Petro Poroshenko said on Monday, TASS reported.

"Ukraine has withdrawn the bulk of its multiple launch rocket and artillery systems," he said in an interview with the Ukrainian television Channel One. He also said that Kiev saw that Donetsk and Lugansk militias had withdrawn "a considerable part of their weapons."

Poroshenko said that no shelling had been reported along "the 485-kilometre section of the front, with the exception of Peski and Avdeyevka."

Earlier, Eduard Basurin, a spokesman for the defence ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) said that the DPR militias had finished the withdrawal of heavy weapons and begun to pull put 24 heavy mortars from the line of contact on their own initiative. Representatives of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) also reported the completion of heavy weapons pullback.