Press center special operations Ukrainian security forces in the Donbass, informs that the militia stopped the shelling of Ukrainian military positions in the conflict area, and it links with the forthcoming meeting of the trilateral contact group in Minsk.

the meeting of the contact group on settling the situation in Eastern Ukraine will begin on 7 July in the Belarusian capital in fifteen. 00.

"the position for 18 hours, starting from midnight today, July 6, in the area of the ATO was not a single artillery shelling of our positions ", - reported in the report on the page of the press center on Facebook.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict were about 6, 5 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed as well as among them during the meeting in Minsk of the contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.

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