Ukraine’s Poroshenko beginning to see that no one needs war. - (Sergei Ivanov)

Ukraine’s leaders are beginning to understand that no one needs a war but the part of war is still very strong in that country, Sergei Ivanov, the chief of the Kremlin administration said an interview with the Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily that will be published on Monday.

“I think that (Ukrainian) President Poroshenko too is beginning to realize that he does not need a war to the bitter end, i.e. to the last Ukrainian,” he said. “The agreements that were reached have made it possible to suspend combat operations, although peace is still very fragile.”

“The party of war in Ukraine is still there, it is very strong but I hope a striving for peace, simply common sense, will get the upper hand,” he said.

The Kremlin administration head noted that a package of laws that gave a chance for the settlement of the conflict in southeastern Ukraine had already been passed. “I believe it will give an impetus to the peace dialogue,” Ivanov said. “In any case, the Ukrainian authorities will have to do a titanic work and I don’t know how many years it will take. But these are Ukraine’s tasks, not Russia’s.”

He said had regular daily, “sometimes several time a day,” telephone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart Borsi Lozhkin. “A great deal of coordination is needed to implement the Minsk agreements,” Ivanov said. “Each one of us, of course, fulfills the will of his superiors but in terms of human relations we have normal working contacts, a dialogue.
http://indian.ruvr.ru/news/2014_09_22/Ukraine-s-Poroshenko-beginning-to-see-that-no-one-needs-war-Kremlin-6104/
22/9/14
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• Ukrainian military organize fortifications around Luhansk region (official)...

Ukrainian military are organizing fortifications around the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic, the republic’s leader Igor Plotnitsky told reporters on Monday.
“We know that the Ukrainian military are organizing fortifications around our region ,” the republic’s leader said. “We are ready for it, and we do not surrender."
He also said the third round of Minsk talks was tough, as there were many disputable issues.

“We have signed a political part of the peace settlement, achieved agreement on a 30-kilometre line clear of all big armaments," Plotnisky told reporters.
He also said that the parties at the talks agreed that terrotories held by Luhansk People's Republic would remain under its control.

Safety belt around Donbass

Last week, ex-chief of Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Service Nikolai Malomuzh told Ukrainian media that border guards have started building ‘a safety belt’ around the districts under militia control.
He sais the belt invisages technical electronic control with mobile control stations along the whole perimeter of the divide line, a permanent control line and a line of trenches, watch towers and other reinforcements.
http://en.itar-tass.com/world/750644