Ukraine Pushes for Progress in East as Latest Cease-Fire Starts
- Zelenskiy calls on Normandy group to sign cease-fire agreement
- Previous cease-fires did not hold up; the conflict simmered
A Ukrainian serviceman on the front line near the village of Zhelobok, Feb. 18.
Photographer: Anatoli Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images
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Ukraine pushed for progress to end the conflict with Russian-backed separatists over its easternmost regions as the latest cease-fire took effect after dozens of unsuccessful attempts.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy won last year’s elections on a promise to end the war that has killed more than 13,000 people since it began with Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and support for rebels who have seized swathes of Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk and Donetsk regions.