Ukraine expects to restore control over east
Posted: Saturday, January 16, 2016 8:51 pm
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Updated: 8:55 pm, Sat Jan 16, 2016.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s president on Thursday said he expects the separatist-held eastern Ukraine to fall back under government control before the year’s end.
A military conflict between government forces and Russia-backed rebels has killed more than 9,000 people and left parts of the Ukrainian industrial heartland in ruin since fighting broke out there in April 2014.
Speaking at his annual news conference in Kyiv, President Petro Poroshenko said he is convinced that the government “should restore its sovereignty” over eastern Ukraine this year, adding that he is going to use all legal means and international talks to do that.
Poroshenko’s comments come a day after negotiators in the Belarusian capital Minsk agreed to make new efforts to enforce the shaky cease-fire.
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