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 The administration of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic said it does not trust the statements made by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that military action in southeastern Ukraine should be halted this week.

“The administration of the republic does not believe such statements. These people cannot be trusted,” Volodymyr Inohorodskykh, the head of the press service for the Luhansk People’s Republic said on June 9.

“We can’t comment on such statements, now that Sloviansk has almost been leveled to the ground,” he said.

“Mobilization has not been suspended, there is a war going on here. We don’t open fire on anyone, we only return fire,” he said.

“Let him cease fire. He is president of this country,” Inohorodskykh said.

The president of Ukraine earlier said military actions in eastern Ukraine should be halted this week. “We should cease fire this week,” Poroshenko said in Kyiv on June 8 during a meeting of the three-party contact group on the implementation of the peace plan to establish peace and calm in eastern Ukraine.