DPR leaders do not believe Poroshenko's promises
DONETSK. June 20 (Interfax) - Representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic think the promises made by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko are unfeasible.
"We have already heard one hundred times about ceasefire by the National Guard and the Ukrainian Army, but the hostilities have not stopped for a minute. In Slovyansk, for example, water pipes were smashed overnight again, despite promises that they signed the so-called truce," DRP Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Purgin told Interfax on Friday.
He thinks that "Poroshenko's promises are unrealistic" and only the Dnipropetrovsk governor, Igor Kolomoyskyi, can ensure a ceasefire. "It is easier to ask Kolomoyskyi to tell his battalions to cease fire as it is mostly his fighters who are fighting there. But there is no more trust in the promises of the Ukrainian president," Purgin added.
For his part, member of the DPR Supreme council and leader of the so-called Donbas People's Militia Miroslav Rudenko said that such government decrees are "no more than tricks." "There will be no ceasefire, we are certain of it. And no one will surrender weapons," Rudenko told Interfax.
