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Ukraine not to extend expired ceasefire
2014-07-01
[Iran Press TV] Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says Kiev will not extend the 10-day ceasefire with pro-Russia protesters in eastern Ukraine.

President Poroshenko made the statement on his website on Tuesday.

"We will attack and free our lands. The decision not to continue the ceasefire is our answer to terrorists, Death Eaters and marauders," he said.
Poroshenko declared a seven-day ceasefire with pro-Russia protesters on June 20 and later extended it to 10 days.

Before the ceasefire's expiration, Ukraine's president discussed the situation with Russian President Vladimir Putin
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
, German Chancellor Angela Merkel
...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom...
, and French President Francois Hollande
...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist...
during a four-way phone call.
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