The SMM monitored the implementation of the “Package of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements”. Its monitoring was restricted by the parties and security considerations*. The SMM observed one explosion in Donetsk region and recorded no ceasefire violations in Luhansk region.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that deployment of US soldiers on Ukrainian territory violates the ceasefire deal agreed earlier this year.

After consideration by Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, the document is to be approved by the Ukrainian president’s decree

According to Russian Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman, Russian experts do not have full access to the documents related to the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash in eastern Ukraine in July 2014.

DPR's official said the share of the ruble in the budget of the Donetsk Republic currently stood at 92%, and of the Ukrainian hryvnia, at 8%

There are currently at least 11 conflict zones in the eastern Ukrainian Donbas region, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) deputy chief monitor in Ukraine said on Thursday.

Moscow says the US-Ukrainian naval exercises in the Black Sea are not contributing to a peaceful settlement in the region

About 10 countries reported cluster munition casualties, in nine of which people were killed by unexploded submunitions, according to the report.

"The only thing wanted by Moscow is a peaceful settlement in south-eastern Ukraine," said the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson

Writing in the Irish Times, former diplomat Dr. Niall Holohan called for the West to work together with Russia to solve the urgent problems facing the world, which include militant Jihadism and the potential break-up of Syria.

In the town of Gorlovka controlled by the Donetsk republic’s militia, "the SMM observed 19 artillery or mortar impacts approximately 3-5km south-west of their position"