September 5 : Cease-fire and the fighting in Ukraine

Ukrainian President and Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Petro Poroshenko has ordered the chief of the General Staff to cease fire from 18.00 on September 5, the presidential press service has reported.

"The peace must established, not on the basis of the Russian president's plan, but based on the Ukrainian plan, which should be backed by the U.S. and the EU, because we won't cope with Russia on our own, because they will [try to] trick us," Yatseniuk said opening a government meeting on Friday. He said that peace should come to Donbas and that three principal conditions should be met for this: the ceasefire, the removal of the Russian troops and rebels from the territory of Ukraine and the restoration of Kyiv's control of the Ukrain-Russia border.