MINSK, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- The conflict Donbas region in eastern Ukraine witnessed the lowest number of civilian victims in September during the entire period of hostilities, an OSCE official said here on Wednesday.
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)'s special representative in the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine, Martin Sajdik, said over the past month, only two people were killed and 16 wounded in the conflict zone in Ukraine's Donbas.
"Thanks to the 'school truce' and the previously concluded 'grain truce', it was possible to significantly reduce the number of civilian casualties," the diplomat told a press conference following the Contact Group meeting in Minsk.
The war in Donbas is an armed conflict between the government forces and the pro-independence military groups of the region in March 2014.
However, Sajdik warned that the situation in the conflict zone could not be called stability.
The next meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine will take place on October 18.
The trilateral contact group is a group of representatives from Ukraine, Russia and OSCE that was formed as means to facilitate a diplomatic resolution to the war in the Donbas region.
