Report: Ukraine president says he will propose peace plan, cease-fire to separatists
KIEV, Ukraine – The Interfax news agency is reporting that Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says he will this week propose a detailed peace plan, including a cease-fire with separatist rebels in the country’s east.
Poroshenko made the remark as he opened a meeting of the country’s national security council. According to Interfax, he said “a cease-fire will be proposed as the beginning of implementation of the president’s peace plan.”
Ukraine has struggled to suppress an insurgency by armed pro-Russian separatists who have seized government buildings, held disputed referendums and declared independence. More than 300 people have died, including 49 service members killed when a Ukrainian transport plane was shot down Saturday.
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