The ceasefire in the Donbass periodically violated Only in the last few days there have been signs that the ceasefire can become a reality, said the Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko, speaking on Wednesday at the Sejm of Poland.

Kyiv authorities began in April in the East of Ukraine military operation against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat in the region. According to the summary data of the United Nations, victims of the conflict were more than 4, 7 thousand civilians, more than 10 thousand were injured. Brokered by Russia and the OSCE agreed in Minsk truce From 5 September. On December 9, in the Donbass was again declared a state of " silence ". First Poroshenko said that Tuesday night (December 16) for the first time took place at the Donbass without fire.

" Billed me for another 5 September ceasefire, one of the key elements of the Minsk Protocol and Minsk Memorandum, periodically broken by the militants. Only in the last few days there have been signs that the ceasefire can become a reality, " said Poroshenko.


numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. They were the response of local residents to violent change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law granting Russian the status of regional language.

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