JFO commander meets with OSCE delegation to discuss ceasefire in Donbas

"Today, August 5, Ukrainian Joint Forces Commander, Lieutenant-General Oleksandr Syrsky met with a delegation of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM) headed by Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE SMM Mark Etherington. During the meeting, the parties discussed certain aspects of the implementation of the agreements reached recently by the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk, as well as a bilateral ceasefire in Donetsk and Luhansk regions,” the report says.

The JFO commander stressed that the Ukrainian side fully implemented all necessary measures within the framework of the Minsk agreements, in particular, in the area of Stanytsia Luhanska (16km north-east of Luhansk). He also informed the OSCE delegation about the current security situation in the Joint Forces Operation (JFO) area, the course of the reconstruction of civilian infrastructure, humanitarian support for the population and so on.

Syrsky once again emphasized the need to immediately inform the global community about the fact that the Russian-led units ignored the unlimited ceasefire.

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