© REUTERS/ Sergei KarpukhinPrime Minister of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic" Alexander Zakharchenko attends a news conference in Donetsk August 11, 2014.
Comment: Donetsk is acting impeccably during this crisis - it needs to, in order to counter the propaganda barrage being directed against it and Russia by the West. This way, anyone paying attention can see who is the superior party in this conflict.
"At the moment, the ceasefire agreement is not fully complied with. It is too early to talk about a complete ceasefire," Zakharchenko said.
"The transfer of prisoners of war will be held today on our part. We hope that on Monday, the Ukrainian side will hold their transfer," he said.
Comment: Good move. By fulfilling their obligations in full and before Kiev, Donetsk puts Kiev in the position of having to comply, or looking like a total monster when they don't. Donetsk holds the cards here. Even if Kiev doesn't follow through, the NAF can always just re-capture any troops that get sent back into the conflict.
Zakharchenko made the statement in lieu of two shelling attacks in Amvrosiivka, within the Donetsk Region, early Saturday.
On the eve of the second meeting of a trilateral contact group on Ukraine in Minsk, Kiev authorities and militia forces agreed on a truce that started at 6:00 p.m. Kiev time (15:00 GMT) on Friday.
The representatives from Ukraine, Russia and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) met Friday to discuss ways of resolving the Ukrainian crisis and agreed to a ceasefire, the international monitoring of its implementation, the exchange of all prisoners and the opening of humanitarian corridors.
The first round of peace talks in Minsk took place on August 26.
The Ukrainian government has been conducting a military operation against independence supporters in eastern Ukraine Since mid-April. Independence supporters refused to acknowledge the new government that came to power after a coup in February and proclaimed independence in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in May.
Violent conflicts in the regions have so far killed 2,500 people and injured 6,000 according to United Nation (UN) estimates.
The freedom fighters (aka "rebels") prove yet again that they are people of integrity, men and women of their word.
The Western-backed Kiev authorities, as usual, are lying scum.
US/NAZO and Kiev: turds of a feather clump together........
Let's hope the freedom fighters (and Russia) flush these evil doers down the proverbial porcelain pipes of history.