UNIAN

According to Poroshenko, the ceasefire topic dominated the discussions during the Minsk talks in the “Normandy format” between the leaders of Ukraine, Germany, France and Russia on February 12.

"At first we received a very strange proposal regarding the ceasefire being introduced after 20 days. That means that for three weeks Ukrainians would actually have had to [continue to] be under fire from Russian mercenaries, with Ukraine paying a very high price," Poroshenko said.