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RFE/RL: Fighting in eastern Ukraine appears to ease amid school-year truce

By Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Published Aug. 30, 2018 at 8:35 pm

Ukrainian serviceman shoots from a hand grenade launcher while fighting in an industrial zone on the outskirts of Avdiivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine, March 30, 2017. The fighting on the outskirts of Avdiivka is the hardest in the conflict in the Eastern part of Ukraine for the second year.

Photo by Anatolii Stepanov

Ukraine’s army and Russia-backed separatists have accused each other of breaching a new truce agreement coinciding with the start of the school year.

But the Ukrainian military said on August 30 in the morning that the intensity of shelling on its positions has significantly decreased since the cease-fire deal came into force overnight on August 29, according to the UNIAN news agency.