Ukraine’s military said Monday that it is waiting for a full ceasefire with pro-Russian rebels before withdrawing heavy weapons from the frontline, a key next step in a tattered peace plan

Ukraine's military said Monday that it is waiting for a full ceasefire with pro-Russian rebels before withdrawing heavy weapons from the frontline, a key next step in a tattered peace plan.
  
"As Ukrainian positions are still being fired upon there can be no talk yet of a withdrawal of weapons," military spokesman Vladyslav Selevnyov wrote in a statement on Facebook.
  
Seleznyov said that Kiev was only willing to start pulling back its heavy weapons once there has been a total stop in firing for a whole day.
  
Ukraine's military said that clashes overnight dropped off considerably but that fighters had briefly tried to storm a flashpoint village east of the key government-held port city of Mariupol.
  
Separatist rebels said Sunday that they had reached an agreement with Kiev to start withdrawing weapons and would complete the pull-back by March 7.
  
A withdrawal of heavy weapons to create a buffer zone along the frontline was meant to start within 48 hours of the ceasefire coming into effect.