The assurances of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on the need to 1 September to stop the fire in the Donbas has not met, there is also no progress on the issue of diversion of equipment up to a caliber of 100 millimeters, told reporters the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic Alexander Zakharchenko.

on Wednesday, the OSCE representative on Minsk talks Martin Sajdik said that the contact group on settling the situation in Ukraine agreed on a ceasefire on the contact line in Donbass by September 1, the beginning of the new academic year. On Thursday, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko at a mutual press conference with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said that the fire in Ukraine must be stopped immediately, before September 1 can not wait.

"Yesterday's shelling of Donetsk showed that the message Poroshenko fails. No progress on the agreement on the withdrawal of equipment up to a caliber of 100 millimeters, unfortunately, no. Nobody takes", he said.

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