That concludes our live-blogging of the Ukraine crisis for Sunday, September 6. Check back here tomorrow for more of our continuing coverage.
Is the cease-fire holding? Poroshenko's comments yesterday were a bit ambiguous.
Ukrainian army positions have come under twelve attacks over the past day, the army operation press center has reported.
It said infantry combat vehicles shelled Ukrainian positions in Maryinka, and small arms and grenade launchers fired on positions south of Avdiyivka.
Ukrainian positions were also attacked in Kirove and Zaytseve.
Breaking from Reuters:
FRANCE'S HOLLANDE SAYS IF PEACE PROCESS IN UKRAINE SUCCEEDS WILL SUPPORT LIFTING OF SANCTIONS
Latest from our news desk on some of Hollande's comments:
French President Francois Hollande has proposed a meeting of the leaders of Germany, Russia, and Ukraine later this month as a cease-fire appeared to be largely holding in eastern Ukraine.
Hollande told reporters on September 7 that the talks could take place in Paris before the United Nations' General Assembly opens on September 28 "so that we can evaluate the [peace] process, where it's at."
“There has been progress in the last few weeks, he said. “The cease-fire has almost been respected."
Fighting between government forces and Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine’s east has claimed more than 6,500 people since April last year.
A truce agreement reached in Minsk in February has been regularly violated, but Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on September 5 that the deal had been observed for the first time for an entire week.