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Ukraine crisis: Details of Poroshenko's peace plan emerge | |
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Details have emerged of a 14-point peace plan to be unveiled by Ukraine's President Poroshenko later. | |
The document, which is aimed at ending fighting in eastern Ukraine, appeared in Ukrainian media overnight. | |
It comes after Mr Poroshenko held his second phone conversation this week with Russia's President Vladimir Putin. | It comes after Mr Poroshenko held his second phone conversation this week with Russia's President Vladimir Putin. |
The plan promises to decentralise power and calls for immediate disarmament in eastern Ukraine where government forces are battling pro-Russia separatists. | |
It also apparently proposes the creation of a 10km (6 miles) buffer zone on the Ukrainian-Russian border, and early local and parliamentary elections. | It also apparently proposes the creation of a 10km (6 miles) buffer zone on the Ukrainian-Russian border, and early local and parliamentary elections. |
Mr Poroshenko has already announced he intends to introduce a unilateral ceasefire by government forces ahead of the peace plan being implemented. | |
Earlier this week, he said a "brief" truce - expected within days - would allow militants in Donetsk and the neighbouring Luhansk region to lay down their arms. | |
Rebels rejected the call to surrender their weapons. | |
Heavy fighting is continuing between troops and pro-Russian rebels in the Donetsk region. | |
Twelve soldiers were killed and 25 were injured in violence near the town of Krasny Liman on Thursday evening, Interfax-Ukraine news agency quoted defence officials as saying. | |
Government forces said about 300 separatists have been killed in the fighting in the area, but this figure has not been independently confirmed. | |
Meanwhile Nato says Russia has moved troops back to the Ukrainian border. | |
In their telephone conversation on Thursday night, the Ukrainian and Russian presidents discussed Mr Poroshenko's peace plan. | |
Mr Putin expressed hope that priority attention would be given to "resolving key problems that have caused strong protests by the people living in" eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin said in a statement. | |
The unrest comes amid tension between Russia and Ukraine over the removal of pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych and Russia's annexation of Crimea. |