Ukrainian separatist rebels have agreed to take part in further peace talks on Friday to end the conflict in Ukraine’s eastern regions, Interfax news agency said on Thursday.
“There is an agreement to hold a round of consultations on June 27 in Donetsk,” Andrei Purgin, a senior figure in the leadership of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, was quoted as saying.
Earlier, speaking in Strasbourg, France, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he had just heard of the rebels’ readiness to meet again with the so-called “contact group” which includes former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, Moscow’s envoy to Kyiv and a high-ranking official …read more
Source: Voice of America
