Ukraine's military accused separatists of violating an agreed "Day of Silence" in the country's embattled east on Dec. 9, an initiative that was seen as an attempt to forge a durable ceasefire paving the way to a new round of peace talks.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Reuters: Ukraine accuses rebels of violating ‘Day of Silence’; Russian gas flows resume
People survey damage their flats 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.
