Trilateral Contact Group calls for absolute, open-ended ceasefire in Donbas starting September 1

The participants in a meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group for settling the situation in Donbas in Minsk on August 26, including representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics (DPR and LPR), agreed on the necessity to fully stop firing in the conflict zone starting September 1, 2016, Darka Olifer, a spokesperson for former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, Kyiv's official representative in the group, said on Facebook on August 26.