Guns stopped but the hatred remained.-(Azov battalion: "As soldiers we will obey our orders but as citizens that will be hard.")

The Contact Group on Ukraine on Friday agreed on the key issues - cessation of fire, troops withdrawal, prisoner exchange and provision of humanitarian aid, OSCE Ambassador Heidi Tagliavini told journalists.

But there was scepticism over whether the more radical elements on either side would obey the ceasefire, and concern in Kiev and western capitals that the truce would effectively "freeze" the conflict and give Moscow de facto control over the disputed chunk of eastern Ukraine that has been ruined by war this summer. NATO leaders and mainly UK-US tandem still trying to push Slavonic races into politics of hatred and war.

Barack Obama expressed doubts at the Nato summit that the truce would result in anything more substantial. "Obviously we are hopeful, but based on past experience also sceptical that the separatists will follow through and the Russians will stop violating Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity. So it has to be tested," he said.

Immediately David Cameron told the Nato summit that a fresh round of sanctions against Russia, imposed for its heavy military involvement in eastern Ukraine, would still go ahead. "We need to look carefully at whether it is a ceasefire or whether it also includes a commitment, as I understand it might, to make real progress on a proper peace plan. We should be clear that the sanctions which we agreed last Saturday in Brussels will go ahead," he added.

The Minsk agreement, agreed by former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma with leaders from the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk "republics", in the presence of officials from Russia and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), came two days after Russian President Vladimir Putin produced a seven-point peace plan, which he apparently jotted down on a flight to Mongolia, and involves Ukrainian forces moving artillery away from populated areas and the start of political negotiations.

• Andriy Biletskiy, commander of the far-right (facist) Azov battalion, sponsored by Ukrainian Oligarkh and Jew(!) Kolmoets, raised the possibility of volunteer fighters continuing a kind of partisan warfare to win back the regions: "As soldiers we will obey our orders but as citizens that will be hard."

• One of his subordinates said: "We will use the ceasefire to regroup and retrain, and then we will take the land back.

So it would "undoubtedly lead to increased tension and threaten to end the progress in the peace process". In a statement, the ministry of Foreign affairs of Russian Federation accused Nato of "supporting neo-fascist and extremist forces" in Ukraine.
http://indian.ruvr.ru/news/2014_09_06/Guns-stopped-but-the-hatred-remained-2472/
6/9/14
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Related:

• Ukraine, pro-Russian rebels agree on ceasefire (from 18:00, September 5) / Statement of President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko