Kiev, Ukraine —
Russia has withdrawn about 70 percent of the armed groups it sent into eastern Ukraine in recent weeks, Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko said Wednesday, quoting his nation’s intelligence sources.
“That gives us a real hope that peace efforts have good prospects,” Poroshenko said in televised remarks before parliament, referring to a cease-fire agreement reached last week.
The truce brought relief from a five-month conflict between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists – backed, Ukraine and NATO have said, by Russian mercenaries and later Russian troops – that has claimed more than 3,000 lives and displaced hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
