The situation in Marinka stabilised during the early evening as a cease-fire took hold.[13] The Ukrainian military stated that the cease-fire restored their control of the town[2] and both the Donetsk People's Republic's Defence Minister Vladimir Kononov and the Ukrainian military confirmed to the OSCE that Marinka was under Ukrainian control.[13] On 4 June, an AP reporter briefly visited the town and confirmed it was under government control, with troops conducting mop-up operations.[14]