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Ukraine Announces Temporary Truce At Donetsk Airport
December 01, 2014
by RFE/RL
The Ukrainian military says its forces and Russian representatives have agreed to a temporary cease-fire at the airport in rebel-held Donetsk.
The military's press service said on December 1 the truce was agreed after talks near the airport between officials from Ukraine and Russia.
Fierce fighting causing hundreds of casualties has raged at the airport since May and continued after a cease-fire between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian officials was agreed in early September.
Ukraine said on December 1 three soldiers had been killed at the airport in the past 24 hours.
A spokesman for the Ukrainian military earlier on December 1 accused Russian special forces of participating in attacks on Ukrainian troops around the airport.
'These are Russian special forces,' the spokesman, Andriy Lysenko, told Reuters. 'It's already the third day that they've been trying to do something.'
More than 4,300 people have died since fighting in eastern Ukraine began in mid-April.
It was not clear how long the cease-fire at the airport is supposed to last.
There was no immediate reaction by separatist leaders to the truce.
Based on reporting by AP, AFP, and Reuters
Source: http://www.rferl.org/content/donetsk-airport- ceasefire-ukraine-russia/26719895.html
Copyright (c) 2014. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036.
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