© Axel Schmidt / ReutersThis man does not understand the meaning of words.
The existing peace deal is good enough and simply needs to be implemented, said Poroshenko at a press conference in Brussels accompanied by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.
Comment: Rich, coming from the guy who has yet to implement any of the terms of the Minsk agreements. It's deja vu all over again!
The Trilateral Contact Group for Ukraine came to agreement to end all military operations and ensure a ceasefire along the whole contact line by September 1 at a meeting in Minsk on Wednesday. The matter is especially important now with the new school year just around the corner.
Information on the location of all educational facilities close to the contact line will be available to both sides, OSCE special envoy Martin Sajdik told journalists in Minsk. Moscow hailed the proposal.
"A very positive proposal to establish a real ceasefire by September 1 was put forward in Minsk. We would like to hope that this proposal will be implemented in practice. After all, we are talking about children," Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Thursday, TASS reports.
Comment: And we all know what value Kiev places on the lives of children... Let's just hope the UAF doesn't copy the IDF and use that "information on the location of all educational facilities close to the contact line" for target practice.
Poroshenko in his turn said there was no reason to wait until September 1.
"Who knows how many lives we will pay until ... September 1," he said, requesting an immediate halt in hostilities.
Comment: Is Poroshenko schizophrenic? Or does he have so little control over his armed forces that he has to 'request' that they immediately halt hostilities. Because it is the UAF who have initiated all recent hostilities.
"We shall see if they will obey the ceasefire or not. We haven't been conducting warfare since February as we do observe Minsk agreement," said Eduard Basurin, General Staff Deputy Head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic.
The next meeting of the Contact Group and its working groups has been scheduled for September 8.
Poroshenko's statement comes a week after he told his troops in the Kharkov region that the Minsk agreement had given Ukraine time to rearm and build up its defenses.
"The Minsk agreement, despite all criticism, has given us time to build up Ukraine's defense. It allowed us to partially bridge the gap in military capacity we have against Russia," Ukraine's leader said at the time.
Kiev continues to accuse Russia of providing the rebel forces with weapons and secretly invading the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Moscow, however, has persistently denied those accusations and claims to be doing everything it can to help Ukraine get over the crisis.
Boy, the sabers are rattling all over the world yet they wait.