The contact group on settling the situation in Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire on the contact line in Donbass by September 1, said the Commissioner of the OSCE on the negotiations Martin Sajdik.

"The trilateral Contact group considers it important and necessary in light of the new academic year to achieve a sustainable ceasefire across the line of contact as a practical step towards ensuring compliance with the relevant provisions of the Minsk agreements. The parties agreed on 1 September together to test the actual incarnation of this proposal, " said Sidik correspondents.

for its Part, the authorized LNR on the negotiations Vladislav Danego called the proposal to stop the attacks for September 1 interesting and balanced. According to his statement, this proposal received approval from all parties involved in the dialogues." The hope is that by September 1 we will be able to stop the attacks, " said Danego correspondents.

The military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of Donbas lasts more than a year. At the talks on February 12 were achieved consensus on stopping the fire, the withdrawal of heavy weapons, introduction to the Constitution of Ukraine changes on decentralization of power and the consolidation of the special status " of certain districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ".

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