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Poroshenko on Ukraine Crisis

Ceasefire plan to be signed today

AFP, Kiev
Ukraine yesterday said it was poised to strike a Kremlin-backed ceasefire deal with rebel leaders after five months of conflict that has sent East-West tensions soaring.
President Petro Poroshenko said the peace blueprint would be signed today at a meeting in Minsk brokered by the pan-European security body the OSCE.
The leaders of two pro-Russian rebel strongholds in Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland also said they were ready to issue orders to silence the guns once a deal is done
The push for peace follows a dramatic escalation of the crisis after Nato reported that Russia had secretly sent in troops and heavy weapons to support the insurgents in a new counter-offensive that has seen Kiev's troops lose control of large areas of the southeast.
But in a sign of the potential hurdles an agreement could face, AFP correspondents reported heavy artillery fire on the outskirts of the key southeastern port city of Mariupol as Ukrainian forces battled separatist gunmen.
Poroshenko said on the sidelines of the Nato summit in Wales that a document would be signed in Minsk "providing for the gradual introduction of the Ukrainian peace plan".
"It is very important that the first element provides for a ceasefire," he said.
Today's meeting will be the second this week in Minsk between representatives of Kiev, Moscow, the separatists and the OSCE.
The heads of the self-declared "People's Republics" of Donetsk and Lugansk also issued a joint statement saying they were "ready to issue a ceasefire order if an agreement is reached and the Ukrainian representatives sign the political settlement plan".
Seven-point blueprint
Russian President Vladimir Putin had announced on Wednesday a seven-point blueprint aimed at halting the fighting after telephone talks with Poroshenko.
The so-called action plan outlines a series of steps including an end to "offensive operations" intheeast, an exchange of prisoners and the opening of humanitarian corridors.
Analysts had said the timing of Putin's announcement appeared designed to head off possible new Western retaliatory measures over Russia's actions in the former Soviet state; which has sent alarm bells ringing in Europe and the United States.
Moscow - increasingly isolated on the international stage and its economy hard hit by Western sanctions -- has vehemently denied any direct involvement in the conflict.
But it has accused Kiev's pro-Western leaders of persecuting Russian speakers in the east who still view themselves as part of a broader post-Soviet country with its roots in Moscow.