04.09 Donetsk, Luhansk Leaders Say Ready to Order Ceasefire Friday If Peace Plan Agreed

MOSCOW, September 4 (RIA Novosti) – The leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics in eastern Ukraine said in a joint statement Thursday they were ready to order ceasefire on Friday afternoon if a peace plan is signed during negotiations in Minsk.

"We are ready to order ceasefire at 3:00 p.m. Moscow time [11:00 GMT] if an agreement is reached and the Ukrainian representatives sign a plan of political settlement to the conflict,” reads the joint statement by DPR leader Alexander Zakharchenko and LPR leader Igor Plotnitsky.

The two leaders also said they “submit their proposals about the ceasefire regime, offering details about guarantees of compliance with this regime, to the Contact Group in Minsk tomorrow.”