they do admit that fighting is going on in that the current cease fire really does look like it's crumbling right now we're back to square one it seems that yulia but this had a really high profile of backing i mean you had u.s. secretary tom peo brokering personally this cease fire they came late into the game the u.s. why did they step in now and apparently have no leverage. till the u.s. is one of 3 regional powers that have been in charge so to speak of finding a solution to this now nearly 3 decades old of conflict the other 2 powers of france and russia the 3 have brokered or had brokered a cease fire in 1904 fragile one but they have failed to secure a lasting resolution to this territorial dispute and what we're seeing now is that none of these 3 power as we're able to bring an end to the clashes an end to the shelling of the civilian areas that has left hundreds possibly thousands of people