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Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves has said after talks in Tallinn with U.S. President Barack Obama that fighting in eastern Ukraine “is Russian aggression” and said "Russia must admit that it is a party to the conflict and take genuine steps for a de-escalation” of the crisis.
Ilves says he wants a "robust and visible" NATO presence in his country
More from our News Desk on the cease-fire agreement that Kyiv says has been reached in eastern Ukraine:
In a statement on Poroshenko's website, his press service said the agreement was reached during a telephone conversation with Putin.
"The result of the conversation was an agreement on a permanent cease-fire in the Donbas," it said, using a term referring to the area where the rebels hold two provincial capitals and other territory.
"Mutual understanding was reached regarding steps that will foster the establishment of peace," the statement said.
The statement was released shortly after Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told Russian news agencies that Putin and Poroshenko had discussed the Ukraine crisis by telephone and that their views on ways out "coincided to a substantial degree."
There was no mention of agreement on a cease-fire in those reports.
This just in from our News Desk:
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's office says Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed on a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine.