5 Sep 2014 19:44

Firing under way in Donetsk - city council

KYIV. Sept 5 (Interfax) - As of 6:00 p.m., firing and explosions were under way in Donetsk; in particular, the city's Petrovsky district was being shelled, and explosions were heard, the Donetsk city council official website reported on Friday.

The contact group for Ukraine signed a protocol in Minsk on Friday on an immediate ceasefire starting from 6:00 p.m. Kyiv time, as was announced by Heidi Tagliavini, the OSCE chairman-in-office's official representative for the situation in Ukraine.

Tagliavini told journalists that the protocol included 12 clauses, the most important of them stipulating that the Ukrainian government forces and the militia were to stop firing starting from 6:00 p.m. Kyiv time.