WAR OVER? BOTH SIDES IN UKRAINE CONFLICT SIGN TREATY BANNING MILITARY ACTION (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Saturday, September 20, 2014, 10:27

Fighters of the Donetsk People's Republic militia in the village of Yasenevka. (RIA Novosti/Gennady Dubovoy)

Kiev and self-defense forces signed a memorandum aimed at effectively halting all fighting in eastern Ukraine after talks in Minsk. It creates a buffer zone, demands a pullback of troops and mercenaries, and bans military aviation flybys over the area.

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The signed memorandum consists of nine points, former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma told journalists following peace talks in Minsk, Belarus.

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