Leaders of the LPR and DPR are ready to extend the truce until June 30

The leaders of the self -proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk "people's republics" promise to extend the ceasefire until June 30. This was stated after consultations in Donetsk on the de -escalation of the situation in the east of Ukraine "Prime Minister" DPR Alexander Borodai, RIA "Novosti" reports .

According to the Decree of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, the truce declared he ended ends at 22:00 (23:00 Moscow time) on Friday. Earlier AFP reported that it was possible for 72 hours. “We became aware that Poroshenko decided to cease the fire until the 30th, we, for our part, are stopping the fire for the same period,” Borodai said.

To begin full -fledged negotiations, the Ukrainian authorities must withdraw military units outside the DPR and LPR, Borodai noted. According to him, the DPR agrees to exchange hostages in "all for all." Borodai also said that now the militants do not intend to release the international border points of the Ruletino and Dolzhansky pass.

The press service of the Ukrainian president said that the decision to extend the ceasefire has not yet been made. Poroshenko noted that he would accept him after consultations with the heads of law enforcement agencies, but before the expiration of the ceasefire.

Over the past day, the number of attacks and attacks of pro -Russian militants has increased to 70, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry published on Friday said . "The terrorists continue to be sheated by the checkpoints of Ukrainian tanks and the Grad Ractive system and the rocket system, they carry out attacks on military units using small arms, grenade launchers and mortars," the document says.

Ukraine calls on foreign partners "to continue the effective and joint pressure that the aggressors must force - illegal terrorist groups and their Russian patrons - to the world."

On Thursday, Poroshenko said that 18 military personnel were killed during the ceasefire . On Friday, the representative of the NSDC information center Andrei Lysenko announced the death of five more Ukrainian military over the past day.