The interim Prime Minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, addressing Ukrainian parliament today, said an amnesty bill was prepared for separatists who laid down their arms and left government buildings in response to an agreement made in Geneva yesterday.
The United States, European Union, Russia and Ukraine yesterday, agreed a plan to help deescalate tensions in eastern Ukraine in Geneva.
The agreement called for the disarmament of armed groups in eastern Ukraine, the return of occupied buildings to the government and amnesty to separatist protestors in exchange for delays in another round of sanctions.
Pro-Russian separatists who proclaimed parts of eastern Ukraine as the Donetsk People’s Republic rejected calls vacate government buildings stating that they would only vacate when pro-European Union demonstrators vacated government administration.
A statement from the Donetsk People’s Republic separatists, said,
Meanwhile in an act of solidarity with Ukraine and other vulnerable eastern European countries, the US and Canadian military, yesterday announced that they would keep fighter planes in neighbouring Poland.
The United States, European Union, Russia and Ukraine yesterday, agreed a plan to help deescalate tensions in eastern Ukraine in Geneva.
The agreement called for the disarmament of armed groups in eastern Ukraine, the return of occupied buildings to the government and amnesty to separatist protestors in exchange for delays in another round of sanctions.
Pro-Russian separatists who proclaimed parts of eastern Ukraine as the Donetsk People’s Republic rejected calls vacate government buildings stating that they would only vacate when pro-European Union demonstrators vacated government administration.
A statement from the Donetsk People’s Republic separatists, said,
“We cannot accept the values of the Kiev junta, we have our heroic part going back to World War Two, we are the Russian bear which is waking up.”
Meanwhile in an act of solidarity with Ukraine and other vulnerable eastern European countries, the US and Canadian military, yesterday announced that they would keep fighter planes in neighbouring Poland.