MOSCOW - Russian-backed rebels and Ukrainian government forces observed a cease-fire agreement on Dec. 9 to bring what officials called a "silent day," at least one, to the now six-month war in eastern Ukraine.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
New York Times: Ukrainian military and separatists observe ‘silent day’
People survey damage in a flat on December 9, 2014 after it was destroyed by shelling the night before in the Kuibishevskiy district of the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, which is controlled by pro-Russian rebels. Planned peace talks between Ukraine and pro-Russian rebels were postponed on December 9 Tuesday but a ceasefire appeared to be largely holding along the frontline in the ex-Soviet republic's war-shattered east.
