US Secretary of State John Kerry called his Russian counterpart
Wednesday to urge him to stop separatist attacks on a strategic
Ukrainian town and respect a fragile ceasefire.
Despite the fall of the eastern town of Debaltseve to pro-Russian
rebels after a fierce assault, US officials said the truce brokered just
last week was not yet dead.
Kerry spoke early Wednesday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov and pressed him “to stop Russian and separatist attacks on
Ukrainian positions in Debaltseve and other violations of the
ceasefire,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.
Hundreds of exhausted government troops retreated from the town
— a strategic railway hub sandwiched between the main rebel-held
cities of Donetsk and Lugansk — as the separatists claimed to be in
total control.
The town’s fall deals a heavy blow to the European-brokered truce
agreed to by all sides in the Belarus capital Minsk last week and
endorsed by the UN Security Council on Tuesday.
But Psaki said the ceasefire remained in play, and there had been
some signs that in other areas “the quantity and intensity of attacks
has decreased.
“We don’t consider it is dead, no,” she told reporters.
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