Trilateral Contact Group agrees to continue 'silence regime' in Donbas (UPDATE)

The Trilateral Contact Group for settling the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, including representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics (DPR and LPR), agreed following a videoconference on Sept. 1 that the silence regime observed since midnight on Sept. 1 should be extended, Darka Olifer, a spokesperson for former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, Kyiv's official representative in the group, said on Facebook.