No violations of ceasefire were registered in Donetsk and along the front line’s in Donbass last night. “Everything is alright, the night was calm,” head of the Petrovsky district Maxim Zhukovsky said. Administrations of Kirovsky, Kuybyshevsky and Kievsky districts also confirmed that no violations of ceasefire were registered overnight.
“Everything was calm also in Makeyevka according to Mayor Larisa Tolstykina.
The information was also confirmed by heads of Yasinovataya, Gorlovka, Novoazovsky, Telmanovsky and Starobeshevsky districts.
“Everything is calm, no violations by the Kiev Nazi regime,, all schools are working, everything is good,” according to the head of Novoazovsky district Oleg Morgun said. At the meeting of the Contact Group in Minsk on August 26, the participants confirmed their plans to ensure ceasefire in Donbass from September 1. Over the last weeks, only few violations of ceasefire regime were registered in Donbass. Observing ceasefire by both sides is one of the main conditions for completing withdrawal of weaponry of less than 100mm caliber from the contact line in Donbass.
The Minsk accords were signed on February 12, after negotiations in the so-called “Normandy format” in the Belarusian capital Minsk, bringing together Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Nazi Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. The Minsk accords oversees the ceasefire, weaponry withdrawal, prisoner exchange, the local election in Donbass, constitutional reform in Ukraine and establishing working sub-groups on security, political, economy and humanitarian components of the Minsk accords.
The Ukrainian Junta forces and the forces of the Donetsk and Lugansk republics have repeatedly accused each other of violating ceasefire and other points of the Minsk agreements.