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Ceasefire in Donbas Observed Over Night: Kiev Forces

© REUTERS / Gleb GaranichUkrainian servicemen walk past armoured personnel carriers, military vehicles and cannons at their new position as they pull back from the Horlivka region, near Druzhkivka, eastern Ukraine
Ukrainian servicemen walk past armoured personnel carriers, military vehicles and cannons at their new position as they pull back from the Horlivka region, near Druzhkivka, eastern Ukraine - Sputnik International
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces and the self-proclaimed Donbas People's Republics respected the ceasefire agreement during the night.

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KIEV (Sputnik) — Kiev forces said on Sunday that the ceasefire was observed in southeastern Ukrainian region of Donbas during the night.

"On the night of March 1, between midnight and 6 a.m. [4:00 GMT] no terrorists’ shelling in the zone of ATO [anti-terrorist operation] was recorded,” the press center of special operation said.

However, the Kiev forces claim that between 16:00 GMT and 22:00 GMT, the militant forces opened fire at the Ukrainian army positions for five times “chaotically.”

On February 12, after 16-hour talks between the leaders of Russia, Germany France and Ukraine, Kiev forces and the militia of the self-proclaimed people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk (DPR and LPR) signed a ceasefire deal.

A convoy of Ukrainian armed forces including armoured personnel carriers, military vehicles and cannons prepare to move as they pull back from the Debaltseve region, in Paraskoviyvka, eastern Ukraine - Sputnik International
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Apart from a full ceasefire, the agreement stipulates the establishment of a buffer zone in southeastern Ukraine through the withdrawal of heavy weaponry from the line of contact between the two sides and an all-for-all prisoner exchange.

After the ceasefire formally entered into force on February 15, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said that with the exception of certain locations the truce in eastern Ukraine was generally observed.

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