KIEV // Ukraine’s military said pro-Russian separatists seem to be honouring the truce accord reached yesterday to stem months of bloodshed, while urging Russia to pull its troops back from the border to avoid provocations.No casualties have been reported in the past 24 hours, military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said in televised remarks in the capital Kiev, the first time that’s happened since the insurgents unleashed a counteroffensive last month. Some rebel shelling occurred after the 6pm start of the ceasefire, but so far the truce is holding, he said. …read more
Source: The National
