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Ceasefire declared in restive east

US chides Russia over redeployment of troops in border

AFP, Slovyanogirsk
Ukraine's new Western-backed president yesterday declared a week-long unilateral ceasefire and unveiled a sweeping plan for curbing a pro-Russian insurgency that killed 13 more soldiers in fierce clashes in the eastern rustbelt.
Meanwhile, the United States yesterday warned it would not accept any use of Russian military forces in eastern Ukraine, amid reports they' could be used to protect pro-Moscow civilians in the country'.
"Today, on June 20, the ceasefire should begin. It will last through June 27," Petro Poroshenko told local residents in a small village that served as a popular lakeside resort before Kiev unleashed a full-scale "anti-terror" campaign on April 13.
The military operation's official spokesman said that Ukrainian forces would formally halt fire at 10:00pm.
But a senior rebel commander immediately rejected the terms of Poroshenko's plan for ending unceasing
battles that have killed more than 375 people and left the ex-Soviet country on the verge of splitting in two.
" No one will lay down their arms until a full troop withdrawal from our land," said Valeriy' Bolotov of the self-declared Lugansk People's Republic.
The sense that tensions on the ground were rising was reinforced when Washington followed up similar charges from Nato by accusing the Kremlin of
stirring up new trouble along its neighbour's western frontier.
A senior US administration official said Russia had deployed "significant" military forces near Ukraine "to provide active support for separatist fighters".
The US official said the troops were" the closest they have been (to the border) since the invasion of Crimea" in March.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman had earlier confirmed deploying some units to "reinforce the protection of the Russian border".
Poroshenko's ambitious push for peace followed two calls he had placed to Putin within 72 hours in the belief that no truce would work without the Russian strongman's support.
Poroshenko's announcement automatically enacted a 14-point plan that demands the rebels disarm and promises to decentralise power through constitutional reform.
The initiative drops criminal charges against fighters who committed no "serious crimes" and provides "a guaranteed corridor for Russian and Ukrainian mercenaries to leave" the conflict zone.
And it establishes a 10-kilometre border buffer zone to stem the flow of gunmen and military equipment that both Kiev and Washington claim have been flooding in from Russia in recent weeks.
The plan was the product of 10 days of European-mediated talks in Kiev