Donbass quiet for week for Poroshenko

Donbass has seen no shelling for a week, Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko said Saturday.

“Today it’s been the first week without fire at Donbass fronts. The first week when the Minsk Agreements  have finally started working. People still die on trip wires, in road accidents, but not in combat clashes or shelling,” Poroshenko said.

At a meeting of the Contact Group on settlement in Donbass in Minsk on August 26, its participants confirmed their plans to ensure ceasefire in Donbass by September 1. Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Special Representative in Ukraine Martin Sajdik said that it is necessary to achieve stable ceasefire by the start of the new academic year.

Be reminded that the village Alexandrovka in the Petrovskiy district of Donetsk was subjected to shelling in the night from 4 to 5 September. One man died and several houses were destroyed. 4 violitions of the seacefire were registered in the LPR from the side of Ukrainian fighters.