After more than four months of bloodshed, a cease-fire in Ukraine’s rebellious east largely held back fighting Saturday, but appeared fragile as both sides of the conflict claimed the others had violated the agreement.A statement from Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s appeared to make glancing reference to the cease-fire’s tentativeness, saying said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed steps “for giving the cease-fire a stable character” in a telephone conversation Saturday. But, it said, both leaders assessed the cease-fire as having been “fulfilled as a whole”.But Western leaders voiced skepticism over Russia’s commitment to the deal. A previous 10-day cease-fire, …read more
Source: The Jakarta Post
