On December 29, at one o'clock Moscow time, the armistice regime entered into force in the Donbas. It is dedicated to Christmas and New Year. The Armistice Agreement was approved on December 27 during a videoconference of the security subgroup in the Ukrainian east. This subgroup is a member of the conflict resolution team in the region.
Meanwhile, at the meeting of the group in Minsk, which was the last this year, to agree on a truce did not work out largely because of the position taken by the Ukrainian delegation. She refused to speak on this topic until the end of martial law, which was valid at that time in a number of Ukrainian regions. As a result, a videoconference of the profile subgroup was formed. In its course, we managed to convince Kiev of the desirability of a truce on New Year's Eve.
This attempt at a cease-fire on the line of contact of the opposing sides in the Donbass is already the 22nd in a row. The truce established in 2016 was the most effective. Then the shooting stopped for 6 weeks.
