Government forces and pro-Russian separatists aim to reinstate a fracturing ceasefire in eastern Ukraine by the time students return to school next week, according to negotiators meeting with Ukrainian and Russian officials.
“The three-sided contact group considers it important to reach a solid ceasefire from the beginning of the next school year,” Martin Saidik, an official with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Ukraine, told reporters Wednesday in Minsk.
The Trilateral Contact Group — made up of the OSCE as well as Ukrainians and Russians — is meeting in the Belarusian capital this week to try and stop the …read more
Source: European Voice
