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Ukraine Strives to Maintain Fragile Truce After Day of Peace
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A fragile truce is holding in Ukraine after what President Petro Poroshenko called its first full day of peace since May.
The truce is “gradually” taking hold on both sides of the conflict on Ukraine’s mainland, Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko said in Kiev today. At the same time, the European Union considering deepening sanctions tied to Crimea to make it clear that it doesn’t accept President Vladimir Putin’s March annexation of the Black Sea peninsula, Danish Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard said.