"The leaders of the Normandy Four leaders agreed on a joint statement, expressing their strong support for the imminent decision of the Trilateral Contact Group on August 23 to announce a ceasefire on the occasion of the beginning of the school year," the presidential website said on August 22 evening.
The leaders of Ukraine, France, Germany and Russia expressed their expectation that such a ceasefire would turn into a sustainable improvement of the security situation, for the benefit of the schoolchildren and for the entire civilian population in Donbas.
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko informed of his visit to the town of Schastia located close to occupied Luhansk, and his meeting there with representatives of forward patrol base of the OSCE SMM, which is permanently based in Stanytsia Luhanska.
