Poroshenko orders Ukrainian forces to cease fire

Reuters

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko gave the order to government forces to cease fire from midnight on Sunday (1700 ET Saturday) in line with a peace agreement worked out last Thursday in Minsk, Belarus. "I give now the order to the armed forces of Ukraine ... to cease fire at 00:00 hours on February 15," he said in a televised statement issued alongside armed forces chief of staff Viktor Muzhenko. (Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; Writing By Richard Balmforth; Editing by Kevin Liffey)