USA Today: Fighting eases in east Ukraine as Russia backs off support for separatists
A long-sought cease-fire appears to be holding in eastern Ukraine, raising hopes that a truce negotiated in February may finally bring peace between Ukrainian national forces and Russian-backed separatists.
No Ukrainian troops died in combat so far this week, the Ukrainian military said, and international monitors report that fighting has fallen to the lowest levels in more than a year, according to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Ukrainian government and separatist forces continue to maintain large forces close to each other, but the current calm “is quite unprecedented,” Michael Bociurkiw, an OSCE spokesman in Kiev, told USA TODAY. “Since the signing of first Minsk accord (cease-fire) in September of last year, I can’t recall a period like this.”
Update #1: International monitors: Cease-fire in eastern Ukraine holds -- AP
Update #2: Ukraine's Poroshenko says rebel elections threaten peace deal -- Reuters
Update #3: Holding the line in eastern Ukraine -- Al Jazeera
WNU Editor: Even I am getting "bored" with the coverage .... Russians Tiring of Ukraine Coverage, Poll Shows (Moscow Times) .... but everyone knows that this can change literally overnight.
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