Deal Reached for East Ukraine Ceasefire From July 27

A local resident Ilya, 57, stands next to a house of his relatives, which locals said was destroyed during a recent shelling, in the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine July 22, 2020. Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters

Negotiators for Ukraine, Russia, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) reached an agreement on Wednesday for a full and comprehensive ceasefire between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine from Monday, Ukraine’s president’s office said.

A simmering conflict between Ukrainian troops and Russian-backed rebels has killed more than 13,000 people since 2014. Major combat ended with a ceasefire agreed in the Belarusian capital of Minsk in 2015, but sporadic clashes still regularly kill civilians, Ukrainian soldiers, and separatists.