Big guns in east Ukraine fall silent, two more die from wounds in Kiev protests


  • World
  • Tuesday, 01 Sep 2015

Ukrainian police and national guard officers carry an injured colleague to an ambulance outside the parliament building in Kiev, Ukraine, August 31, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer

KIEV (Reuters) - A fragile truce between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists appeared to be holding on Tuesday as both sides made a renewed effort to silence their guns and make the much-abused ceasefire work.

Sporadic shelling and shooting, which each side has blamed on the other, had ensured a steadily mounting death toll despite the ceasefire called as part of a peace plan worked out in Minsk, Belarus, in February.

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