“We welcome the fact that the participants in the Trilateral Contact Group meeting expressed their firm resolve to fully comply with the measures to strengthen the ceasefire agreement of July 22, 2020 and thereby make a significant contribution to the security situation along the contact line before Christmas,” RIA Novosti reports. joint report of the Foreign Ministries of Germany and France.

It also urged the parties to abide by the ceasefire and to continue negotiations on further steps in the humanitarian field, such as the opening of border crossings and the exchange of prisoners.

Earlier, the head of the office of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, Andriy Yermak, said that during the meeting of the contact group, all parties announced their intention to comply with the ceasefire agreements.