Ukraine's Donetsk republic vows to comply with ceasefire agreement as of Feb 15

BRUSSELS, February 12. /TASS/. The uropean Union should continue putting pressure on Russia so as to achieve fulfillment of the Minsk accords, President Petro Poroshenko told reporters on Thursday after a speech at the EU summit.

Poroshenko said he had come to Brussels for the purpose of asking for further support.

The Ukrainian leader accused the the militias of Ukraine's self-proclaimed republics of an offensive, which they had allegedly launched after the signing of accord by the Contact Group for Ukraine in Minsk earlier Thursday morning.

Specifically, he claimed that the so-called ‘separatists’ had resumed offensive operations near the transport hub of Debaltsevo and in a number of other areas.