Ukrainian President Extends Truce In East Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has announced his government will extend by 72 hours a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine. The announcement came shortly after Poroshenko returned to Kyiv from Brussels, where he signed a landmark free-trade deal at a European Union summit. On his website, Poroshenko said the truce had been extended in line with a deadline set by EU leaders for Ukrainian rebels to agree to a mechanism to monitor a cease-fire, return border checkpoints to Kyiv control, and free hostages including four monitors of the OSCE rights and security watchdog. The truce will now run until 10 p.m. local time on June 30. Earlier, pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine expressed a willingness to abide by the extended truce. But Donetsk rebel leader Aleksander Borodai said the separatists would not hand over control of three captured border posts. Please find the full article here: rferl.org/content/ukraine-ceasefire-poroshenko-/25438203.html
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 11:01:13 +0000
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