Ukrainian soldiers man a position on the front line near the small eastern Ukrainian city of Kurakhove, March 11, 2015 -© AFP/File / by Clare Byrne, Oleksandr Savochenko
KIEV: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko reported Friday a “gradual de-escalation” in the conflict between government forces and pro-Russian separatists in the country’s east as Kiev received the first tranche in a multi-billion-dollar IMF bailout.
Speaking on Ukraine’s private 1+1 television network Poroshenko said: “The fact that we have not had military losses for several days … this is a clear indication of a gradual de-escalation.”
Poroshenko’s assessment echoed that of a European monitoring mission, which …read more
Source: The Borneo Post
