Kiev (AFP) – NATO’s top military commander expressed cautious optimism Saturday that a tenuous Ukrainian ceasefire whose details were thrashed out in marathon overnight negotiations would help end a bloody pro-Kremlin uprising that has inflamed East-West ties.Government forces and pro-Kremlin militias were due by early Sunday to pull back their forces and set up a buffer zone along the frontline that splits a key industrial wedge of Ukraine’s Russian-speaking east from the rest of the ex-Soviet state.The withdrawal and an accompanying monitoring mission by teams from the OSCE pan-European security body are at the heart of a nine-point plan struck …read more
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