The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany have agreed to extend the Minsk peace accord on Ukraine into 2016, the Kremlin said in a statement on Wednesday, following a phone call between the four leaders.
Extension of the agreement was widely expected as a cease-fire has been broadly holding in eastern Ukraine since September, though sporadic clashes have continued between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces and many of the agreement’s terms are far from being implemented.
The original terms of the Minsk peace deal, reached in February, were meant to be implemented by the end of 2015, culminating with the …read more
Source: Voice of America
