Foreign ministers from Germany, France and Ukraine visited eastern Ukraine on Sept. 15, hours after Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces agreed to a ceasefire in a conflict that has killed over 9,600 since spring 2014.
“The ceasefire gives us a chance to work on the other things that are so important…We’ve had six months of stagnation and that has worsened the security situation,” German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told reporters on Sept. 15.
