The ceasefire regime in eastern Ukraine will take force at midnight between September 14 and 15 to last for a week, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said.

"Tonight, at midnight the ceasefire regime will take force, and [it will remain effective] for a week," Steinmeier told a briefing conference that he attended together with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault in Kyiv on Wednesday.