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September 16, 2014

Ukraine Offers Concessions as Attack Threatens Truce 
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The Ukrainian government has offered a number of key concessions to the
separatist forces it's battled since April. A proposal from President
Petro Poroshenko would grant the separatists amnesty, language
protections, and self-governance rights under Ukrainian sovereignty. The
offer comes as part of the peace effort following the truce brokered
earlier this month. In the worst violence since the truce was reached,
at least six people were killed and 15 wounded in shelling Monday in the
rebel stronghold of Donetsk. The violence comes as the United States and
other NATO countries began military exercises in Ukraine.

 

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