HOPEFUL SIGN? Ukraine leader says most Russian troops have left

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September 10, 2014: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, right, talks with Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk in Kyiv, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko, Pool)

Ukraine’s president has claimed that most Russian forces have left his country, in the latest conciliatory move aimed at stoking a peace campaign that began last week. 

Reuters reported that Petro Poroshenko told a televised Cabinet meeting that “70 percent of Russian troops have been moved back across the border .