Ukrainian government troops and separatists said their forces were complying with an agreed "Day of Silence" in Ukraine's war-torn east on Dec. 9, marking an attempt to forge an effective ceasefire which may lead to a new round of peace talks.
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A woman surveys damage in her 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, but a ceasefire appeared to be largely holding along the frontline in the ex-Soviet republic's war-shattered east.
