Shelling stopped abruptly at midnight on Saturday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk after President Petro Poroshenko ordered government forces to halt firing in line with a ceasefire agreement aimed at ending the country’s bloody conflict. Poroshenko, wearing the uniform of the armed forces supreme commander, said in a televised address in the capital Kiev that there was still “alarm” over the situation around Debaltseve, a key transport hub, where government forces have been hard pressed by encircling Russian-backed separatists. The ceasefire, negotiated in four-power talks on Thursday, foresees the creation of a neutral “buffer zone” and withdrawal of …read more
Source: Egypt Independent
