Updated: Sept. 3, 2014, 4:40 a.m. E.T.
(KIEV, Ukraine) — The office of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says he and Russian President Vladimir Putin have reached agreement on a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine.
The brief statement on Wednesday gave no details and there was no immediate reaction from the Russia-backed separatists whom Ukrainian forces have been fighting since April.
Russian markets jumped on the news. The MICEX benchmark was 3 percent higher while the ruble rose 1.2 percent against the U.S. dollar.
Putin’s spokesman said earlier that the Russian president and Poroshenko had found in a recent discussion that they “largely share views” on …read more
Source: Time
