The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said on the last working day of the week that relates to the implementation of the Minsk agreements with " cautious optimism ". The head of Ukraine is in Astana on an official visit. "I Want to thank Nursultan Abishevich (Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan) for the high evaluation of our efforts that have led to the fact that in Ukraine, there came a truce. In it is a little believed, we have made every effort. As a result of our efforts has been for more than 2 weeks the guns are silent, and this gives reason for cautious confidence that other points of the Minsk agreements will be implemented ", - said Poroshenko, speaking in a joint press statement. The Ukrainian authorities in April of last year began military action against the self-proclaimed LNR and DND. According to the final data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 8 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbas region is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk the contact group, which Since September of last year had already taken 3 of the document, regulating the steps to de-escalate the conflict. From 1 September in the Donbass entered into force another truce, both parties and observers state that it is observed. At the end of September was signed the agreement about the withdrawal of weapons with a caliber of not more than 100 millimeters and tanks from the frontline. This process will be gradual. The authorities LNR have started to withdraw arms 3 October, 5 October, the Military also began to take vehicles in the Luhansk region. Power DND told that there are plans to begin withdrawal of heavy weapons in the 2nd part of October.