via Yahoo News.
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine and Russian-backed rebel fought fiercely for control of a strategic railway junction on Friday despite a new peace deal brokered by Germany and France.I don't know if this cease fire will work but even if it does, Ukraine is broken.
A ceasefire is due to come into effect from Sunday under the agreement, which also envisages a withdrawal of the heavy weaponry responsible for many of the more than 5,000 casualties in the conflict that broke out almost a year ago.
Both sides accused each other of killing civilians. Two people were killed and six wounded when a shell hit a packed cafe in the Kiev-controlled town of Shchastya near rebel-held Luhansk in eastern Ukraine, a local official said, adding that other shells had struck elsewhere in the town.
"The town's heating system is broken, power lines are damaged as well as the water supply ... So this is how a comprehensive ceasefire is prepared for," the head of the Kiev-controlled administration, Hennadiy Moskal, said online.
The rebels accused Ukrainian forces of shelling the separatist stronghold of Donetsk and the town of Horlivka, where they said on their website that three children had been killed.
Russia has carried the day.
The rebels have ground and they will not give it up. Even if Ukraine is simply taking a strategic pause to rebuild its forces for more fighting later this year or next, I don't know if they will be able to dislodge the rebels from territory they've taken.
The only solution is to send there a Peacekeepers, everything else, the papers, casefire... it is less worth then a toilet paper. Russia will not end this war, they are wining it... why they should want to end it? They already serve the Europe the biggest bloodbath since Balkan Wars and they will not stop.
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The US, not involved in Minsk, still has control of Kyev. Poroshenko, who apparently didn't sign the agreement, Kuchma did, broke Minsk 1.0 and will probably do the same now on US orders. Russia won't be allowed to "carry the day" and who do Merkel and Hollande think they are anyhow?
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