KIEV, Ukraine — President Petro Poroshenko declared a “day of silence” Tuesday, suspending military operations in Ukraine’s war-torn east in hopes of restoring a September cease-fire deal with Russian-backed rebels that has been broken almost daily with deaths among fighters and civilians.
More than 4,300 people have been killed and nearly 1 million others displaced over the course of the seven-month long conflict. At least 1,000 people have died since the shaky cease-fire deal was hashed out on Sept. 5 during a meeting in the Belarusian capital of Minsk between representatives from Kiev, Moscow and the rebels’ self-declared “people’s republics” of …read more
Source: Mashable
