During a meeting of the Contact group on Ukraine its been agreed that in a gesture to shore up a tenuous ceasefire, there will be an end to all violations by September 1.<br /><br /> Both Kyiv and pro Russian separatists settled on that date as it marks the beginning of the school term.<br /><br /> Each side has blamed the other for an increase in sporadic clashes and shelling.<br /><br /> Speaking for the Contact group, the OSCE’s representative Martin Sajdik expressed his deep concern about how undermining of February’s Minsk agreement the number of ceasefire violations had been.<br /><br /> But Wednesday’s meeting appears to have pulled all sides together including one of the separatist leader in Luhanks.<br /><br /> Vladislav Deinego said: “A rather interesting, rather balanced proposal was pronounced at these talks – to fully cease shelling as of September 1. This proposal received a positive response practically from everyone and there is hope that as of September 1 we will manage to stop the shelling..”<br /><br /> France and Germany ar
