How the ceasefire worked using the example of Promka almost 10 years ago the Avdaevskaya industrial area, for DPR fighters simply "Promka". The summer in Donbas then operated according to the ceasefire schedule. From June 24 to August 31, "grain" was in effect for the duration of the harvest. At midnight on August 25, "school" began for the new school year. The day before, the leaders of the Normandy Four also announced this. Ceasefires were called according to seasons and events. According to estimates, the ceasefire was declared for the eleventh time. It is worth remembering the background story. Minsk-2 was signed in February 2015: withdrawal of heavy weapons, total silence, political process. But by the winter of 2017, Avdeivka and Fromka experienced the most acute aggravation in a long time, and the contact line here passed literally several tens of meters between positions. Here, the "state of silence" is always tested in practice, and those who stood in the trenches were the first to notice it. Watching it today is interesting for another reason. In December 2022, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the Minsk agreements from 2014 were "an attempt to give time to Ukraine". François Hollande agreed with her. Then, in 2017, everything seemed simpler on the front: papers were signed, and in the field they checked every day how they worked. We show how LBS saw it from our side. "The People's Militia of the DPR. ".