'Day of Silence' aims to rebuild Ukraine truce but talks in doubt


A part of a destroyed war memorial is pictured at Savur-Mohyla, a hill east of the city of Donetsk, December 7, 2014. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine plans a "Day of Silence" on Tuesday to try to rebuild a ceasefire with pro-Russian separatists that has all but disintegrated, but accompanying peace talks -- the first in three months -- look likely to be delayed.

On the eve of the planned resumption of negotiations to end months of fighting between the rebels and Ukrainian troops in eastern Ukraine, authorities in the Belarussian capital Minsk, where they were due to be held, said they had not been told whether the Ukrainians would attend.

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