ALJAZEERA: A pro-Russian rebel leader in Ukraine’s breakaway east said Monday that separatist groups would observe a weeklong ceasefire, a move that raises hope of a breakthrough in the crisis but could nonetheless be undone by fighting on the ground.
Alexander Borodai, the self-proclaimed prime minister of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, said rebels would lay down their arms in line with a cease-fire declared Friday by the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko…
Russia has welcomed the peace plan but urged the Ukrainian government to engage in direct talks with the rebels, instead of sending intermediaries… (more)
