Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko states that a relevant calm has been observed for the fifth day in the combat area in Donbas.

"The hope is still very fragile, but it is the fifth day with no artillery fire along the frontline and there are no mortars. For the fifth day Ukrainian servicemen are not getting killed on the frontline," he told reporters after visiting injured Special Forces soldiers in the Central Hospital of the Interior Ministry in Kyiv on Tuesday.