Poroshenko: Donbas truce proven workable
Not a single Ukrainian soldier died in the anti-terrorist operation zone in Donbas on Wednesday, for the first time in a long stretch of time, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said.
"Yesterday was the first day in months when Ukraine did not have a single fatality. That was the first day of a real truce. Hail Ukraine," Poroshenko tweeted on Thursday morning.
The president said in his speech at the 12th extraordinary congress of the judiciary there were no wounded Ukrainian soldiers either, the presidential press service reports.
"This is the first day in many weeks and months where Ukraine does not have a single killed or wounded [serviceman], when the ceasefire finally worked," Poroshenko stressed.
"This is a really festive day," he said.
"Just imagine: no one is dead and no one is wounded. There were two rifle attacks near Debaltseve in the past 24 hours. The guns are silent, the rocket launchers are silent," Poroshenko said.
The president added that a special mission of the OSCE would arrive in Kharkiv on Thursday.
