US state Department: the possibility of a ceasefire in Ukraine remains
The possibility of a ceasefire in Ukraine remains, said on the first day of the week authorized the U.S. Department of state Jen Psaki.
" Battles continue in the cities of Donetsk and Lugansk, and the Possibility of a cease-fire is still under discussion, " said Psaki, noting that the militiamen left the Slavyansk and Kramatorsk.
A week ago the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said about the cancellation of the ceasefire that had been In place for ten days, and On the resumption of the military operations against the militias in the East of Ukraine. Then militia withdrew from Slavyansk and Kramatorsk. In Russia the operation, which began in April, called punitive and demanded her to stop.
numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, how is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.