After two days of hard negotiations in Minsk, four European leaders agreed on a cease-fire deal in eastern Ukraine, Russian leader Vladimir Putin announced Thursday.
Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Putin worked nonstop for seven hours Wednesday and for a few more hours Thursday before they arrived at a compromise to stop the violence.
Missiles strike eastern Ukrainian town, killing at least 15
Missiles strike eastern Ukrainian town, killing at least 15
“We agreed on a cease-fire that takes effect Sunday,” Putin said in a televised statement after the talks in Minsk, Belarus. "The second position which I think is of extreme importance is the withdrawal of heavy weaponry from the current front line for Ukrainian troops and the demarcation line agreed upon in the Sept. 19 Minsk agreements for the Donbass armed forces.”
Two regions of Donbass engulfed by the armed conflict will get wider special powers in the course of a constitutional reform yet to be conducted in Ukraine.
The Russian leader complained that the night of the talks was “not the best night of my life.”
In the mean time we are sending arms to Ukraine.
Can you say Clusterfuck?
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Standard ceasefire practice: All out push! Grab everything you can before Sunday! Wooohooo!!!
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