Morning Star.png Donetsk Anti-Fascist Forces Declare Ceasefire James Tweedie, The Morning Star, London, 14 September 2016 Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) Prime Minister Alexander Zakharchenko announced a unilateral ceasefire by his forces fighting Kiev troops yesterday. He said he had ordered anti-fascist militias in Ukraine's eastern Donbass region to stop fighting from midnight tonight. Three DPR and three government troops had been killed in the previous 24 hours. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said parliament would vote on long-delayed reforms, a condition of the 2014 Minsk II agreement, "in the nearest future." German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault plan to visit Kiev this week to restart peace negotiations. In a televised statement, Mr Zakharchenko said the self-declared DPR was "fully committed" to the Minsk deal and sees them as "the only solution." He accused Kiev of a "lack of willingness to solve the problem in a peaceful manner." Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week he was ready to participate in "Normandy format" talks, with France, Germany and Russia mediating between the Ukrainian combatants, despite recent military provocations by Kiev. Embezzler's circus But on Monday, Kiev's Prosecutor-General Yuriy Lutsenko said he was preparing to charge senior Russian government officials and generals over the annexation of Crimea and the region's subsequent vote to reunify with Russia. Mr Lutsenko said they would be tried in absentia in Kiev before he sent the case to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague for the defendants to "face the fate of Slobodan Milosevic." Like the United States, Russia has not ratified the Rome statute setting up the ICC and is therefore beyond the court's jurisdiction. Mr Lutsenko was himself jailed in 2012 for embezzlement and abuse of his former office as interior minister but released a year later by President Viktor Yanukovych, who was ousted in 2014 by the fascist-supported Maidan Square coup that prompted Crimea's secession. [email protected] From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-d209-Donetsk-anti-fascist-forces-declar e-unilateral-ceasefire#.V9jTfPl9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14118 (20160914) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/000c01d20e4d%24fb5889c0%24f2099d40%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
