Posted on 12/11/2014 10:49:19 PM PST by wetphoenix
Sydney (AFP) - President Petro Poroshenko on Friday said a "real" ceasefire was in place in Ukraine after the first 24 hours in seven months without a military casualty, although he admitted the truce was fragile.
"I have positive news. Today is the first 24 hours for seven months... when we have a real ceasefire in Ukraine," he said in a speech during a trip to Australia.
"You simply can't imagine how important it is for me. This is the first night when I don't have either a lost or wounded Ukrainian soldier."
The ceasefire with pro-Russian rebels was introduced on Tuesday in the hope of ending an eight-month conflict that has claimed at least 4,300 lives and displaced close to one million people, according to United Nations figures.
A Ukrainian military spokesman said on Thursday that three soldiers were killed and eight injured in the day preceding his comments.
But Poroshenko said the last 24 hours had passed without incident and that if the ceasefire held it would be "a great step for peace and stability in Ukraine".
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I hope he is right. I hope the leaders of Russia have finally come to their senses. If not, the world is a much less safe place. And that’s for us and them.
Meanwhile, the new Peter the Great has more problems in his neo-Empire plan.
http://www.interpretermag.com/russia-may-lose-belarus/
http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21636047-president-remains-popular-his-ukrainian-adventure-could-change-faster-many
"Over the past nine months opinion polls find that support for the presence of Russian troops in Ukraine have fallen from 74% to 23%."
Putin's Full Spectrum Information Operations are going to fall apart as people empirically see the consequences of his needless adventurism. Russia's neighbors want peace, but not peace with the clownish Putin ruling over them like a Tsar of the Romanov family.
$60/barrel oil and a collapsing Russian economy might have something to do with this...
Which is a consequence of “drill here, drill now”
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