Special monitoring mission of the OSCE noted a relative lull in the combat area in Donbass In the course of 3 weeks, said on Thursday the press-Secretary of the mission in Ukraine Michael Bociurkiw.

"We don't stop to observe a relative lull. The ceasefire, in the majority, observed in the East of Ukraine already the third week in a row, 19 and 21 September has not been a single documented case of violations neither in Luhansk nor Donetsk regions ", - he said Last news .

Baturkin also noticed that the gunfire attacks claim About instability not as a long-standing truce." About instability not as a long-standing truce shown by our constant monitoring of sparodically fire from small arms and light weapons", he said.

Despite the lull, SMM agitates to make the ceasefire permanent.

The Ukrainian authorities in April of last year began military action against the self-proclaimed LNR and DND. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began almost 7, 9 thousand people. The question of resolving the situation in Donbass is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk the contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document, regulating the steps to de-escalate the conflict.

at the meeting of the contact group, which took place on 26 August in Minsk, the parties to the conflict agreed On the need to achieve a ceasefire in Donbas on September 1. The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko met with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's September 13, summed up in practice, full compliance with the ceasefire regime in the Donbas since the end of August this year.

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