Ukraine agrees to ‘permanent ceasefire’ in east with Russia

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Ukraine agrees to ‘permanent ceasefire’ in east with Russia
By Agence France-Presse
Wednesday, September 3, 2014 9:02 EDT

Ukraine’s beleaguered President Petro Poroshenko announced on Wednesday that he and Russia’s Vladimir Putin had agreed to a “permanent ceasefire” in the east of the former Soviet country.

Poroshenko’s office said the agreement was reached in a telephone exchange that was preceded only a few hours by US President Barack Obama’s arrival in former Soviet Estonia — a new NATO member seeking Western protection from an increasingly belligerent Kremlin.

Leaders from the 28-nation Western military bloc are due to agree on Thursday in Wales the creation of a 4,000-string force that could be deployed within two days to meet any perceived Russian military movements in eastern Europe.

Poroshenko’s stunning announcement came more than four months into a war that has claimed more than 2,600 lives and plunged relations between Moscow and Kiev’s Western allies to its lowest since the Cold War.