Contact Group on Ukraine calls for ceasefire near water filtering station

MINSK, May 4 (Xinhua) -- The Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) on Ukraine has called for ceasefire around the Donetsk filtering station, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's (OSCE) Special Representative Martin Sajdik told local media Friday.

"Although the sides pledged and strengthened patrols of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission, the ceasefire regime was still violated there," Sajdik said following the Contact Group meeting in Minsk.

At the same time, the station supplies water for hundreds of people on both sides of the contact line, he said.

In addition, Sajdik told media that the subgroup for humanitarian issues continued discussing the exchange of detained persons.

The next meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine will take place in Minsk on May 16.

The TCG is a group of representatives from Ukraine, Russia and the OSCE that was formed to facilitate a diplomatic solution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Enditem