Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine

KIEV - Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic talked on Monday, the first day of his visit to Ukraine, about the forthcoming activities of the Trilateral Contact Group and special observation mission of the OSCE in Ukraine after Serbia assumes the OSCE chairmanship in January.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has asserted a "real ceasefire" which entered into force on Tuesday is now being observed.

While on an official visit to Australia, Poroshenko asserted a truce had been registered "for the first time in seven months in Ukraine."

The Ukrainian army is planning on extending the ceasefire with the pro-Russian separatists, following a one-day truce on Tuesday during which the warring sides largely abstained from attacking each other.