Ukraine Separatists Ignore Geneva Deal on Easing Tensions

Pro-Russian protesters in eastern Ukraine refused to give up buildings and lay down their arms as a four-nation deal negotiated in Geneva demanded, while the government in Kiev pledged to abide by the terms of the accord.

The government is committed to the agreement, according to Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry, and authorities are “ready to answer questions of people in the east to carry out comprehensive constitutional reform,” Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said on television. A leader of the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, dismissed the call to disarm and vacate seized property and public places.