Ukraine's separatist east passed the night into Dec.16 without any shooting, President Petro Poroshenko said, hailing the first such stretch of calm as a positive sign for the next steps in a peace plan.
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Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko speaks at the Lowy Institute, an independent, international policy think tank, in Sydney on Dec. 12, 2014.
