Over the past two weeks monitors have reported a sharp decrease in hostilities along the eastern front line, fuelling hopes for the 18-month-old “Minsk” peace process created to end a conflict that has killed over 9,500 people since April 2014.
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Alexander Zakharchenko’s announcement was aired on Russian television Tuesday in a move to end the more than two-year-old conflict in which more than 9,500 people have died.
He said he had ordered his troops to respect the truce and urged Ukrainian government forces to do the same.
The attack killed at least three Ukrainian soldiers and wounded 15.
According to him, the kindergarten network in Ukraine consists of nearly 15 thousand establishments attended by more than 1.3 million children.
Ukraine said today (13 September) that pro-Russian insurgents had killed three of its soldiers in violation of a truce the foreign ministers of Germany and France will try to revive in Kyiv this week.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Tuesday he expected the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to agree to provide Kiev with a new $1 billion tranche of financial aid on Wednesday. “I expect the Verkhovna Rada to support the constitutional amendments regarding decentralization”.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said the issue is that there was no agreement with Russian Federation over the sequence for implementing the peace terms.
The president’s office also announced that Poroshenko would be meeting with the foreign ministers of Germany, France, Britain and Poland on Wednesday.
The deadly fighting came the day before German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault were due to arrive in Kiev for talks with Ukrainian officials on ending one of Europe’s bloodiest crises since the 1990s Balkans wars.
“Our proposals are on the table, for making the cease-fire permanent and for the political process”, Steinmeier said.
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