MINSK. Aug 23 (Interfax) - The Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine has reached a decision to introduce a ceasefire beginning on August 25 at its meeting in Minsk, Russian Special Envoy to the Trilateral Contact Group Boris Gryzlov said.
"The main result is that the Contact Group succeeded in agreeing on the ceasefire dedicated to the new academic year beginning on August 25. We hope that the 'school' truce will be honored responsibly and indefinitely," Gryzlov told reporters on Wednesday.
Gryzlov also highlighted the reports about shell attacks, in particular, on the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) employees and said that the Russian delegation demanded disciplinary measures be applied to ceasefire violators.
The OSCE SMM has not recorded weapons use cases in several sectors of the disengagement line, the special envoy said. "This also concerns the Stanytsia Luhanska area, where the OSCE has already many times recorded the periods of silence exceeding the number of days established," he said. Despite this, the disengagement of forces in this sector failed, though one year will soon pass since the time of the first agreement on disengagement of forces in this area, Gryzlov also said.
"Kyiv is still sabotaging the disengagement of forces in this area. Although there are no obstacles and even a new OSCE SMM round-the-clock observation point is mounted there," the politician said.