Residents of the town of Avdiyivka, near Donetsk, are skeptical about the new ceasefire in eastern Ukraine that began on Sept. 15. Shortly after going into effect, it was broken at least twice.
“Last night was hot,” a Ukrainian serviceman at a military base near Avdiyivka told DW on Sept. 15 morning. Avdiyivka is a government-controlled town in eastern Ukraine, a stone’s throw from the pro-Russian separatist city of Donetsk. A day earlier, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his Ukrainian and French counterparts Pavlo Klimkin and Jean-Marc Ayrault announced that a ceasefire in Donbas would go into effect starting at midnight on Sept. 15.
