Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin says that the Ukrainian authorities are ready to agree to a bilateral ceasefire in the east of Ukraine.
“Now we’ll have to achieve a bilateral ceasefire, which will be monitored by the OSCE,” Klimkin said at a press conference after a Ukraine-Russia-Germany-France ministerial meeting in Berlin on July 2.
Klimkin said that the Ukrainian side had earlier declared a unilateral ceasefire, but the initiative hadn’t been supported by militants, which resulted in numerous Ukrainian forces casualties.
“We’ve wasted a lot of time, lost a lot of lives during this unilateral ceasefire by the Ukrainian forces,” Klimkin said.
