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New Ceasefire Announced For Eastern Ukraine by Enapesunday(m): 12:11pm On Sep 15, 2016 |
Ukrainian President
Poroshenko said his country
has agreed to a ceasefire
proposal announced by pro-
Russian rebels. Despite a
2015 peace deal, the war in
Donbass has continued to
plague Ukraine.
The protracted conflict in
eastern Ukraine will see a
fresh attempt at a truce,
Ukrainian President Petro
Poroshenko said on
Wednesday that
government troops would
adbide by a ceasefire
agreement proposed by pro-
Russian rebels earlier this
week. The ceasefire was set
to come into effect
Thursday and last for at
least one week.
Germany was amongst the
first foreign powers to hail
the decision. Foreign
Minister Frank-Walter
Steinmeier said, "We are
happy and pleased that
President Poroshenko has
agreed to maintain a
cessation of hostilities." He
added that the International
Monetary Fund has
expressed its willingness to
support Ukraine if it sticks
to the deal.
Although a formal peace
deal was drawn up and
signed in February 2015,
scattered violence has
continued between pro-
Russian rebels and
Ukrainian troops. While
both sides have largely held
to the agreement to
withdraw heavy weapons
from the frontline, the war
in the Donbass region has
joined the ranks many post-
Soviet territorial conflicts
that are frozen without any
real solution.
The conflict has claimed at
least 10,000 lives since a
popular uprising in early
2014 against Ukraine's
former President Viktor
Yanukovych, who was
perceived as being in
Moscow's pocket. The
unrest was then
compounded by the Russian
annexation of the Crimean
peninsula, eventually
resulting in all-out war.
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