Past 24 hours sees no casualties, shoots for first time ever – Poroshenko

KYIV. Sept 11 (Interfax) – The past 24 hours were the first day in the past 18 months that saw no casualties and heard no shooting in eastern Ukraine, the country’s President Petro Poroshenko said.

“I want to say that today is the first day in the past 18 months on which there were no casualties and no shooting during 24 hours. I congratulate you on that,” Poroshenko said at the annual meeting of the Yalta European Strategy (YES) meeting in Kyiv on Friday.