Militants of illegal armed formations do not observe the so-called 'school truce' which was to start on midnight of Friday, as they twice shelled the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone, the ATO headquarters' spokesman, Anatoliy Stelmakh, has said.

"Already from the beginning of this day, we have recorded two shellings of our positions, in particular, near the towns of Talakivka and Zaitseve. Our serviceman has already been killed as a result of the armed confrontation in Talakivka," Stelmakh said on the 112.ua TV Channel.

An agreement was reached on August 23 at a meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group for the settlement the situation in Donbas that a ceasefire will be established in Donetsk and Luhansk regions ahead of the beginning of the academic year starting at midnight of Friday on August 25.