KIEV, September 17 (RIA Novosti) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said Wednesday he had ordered the defense minister to keep the country's armed forces in the highest state of combat readiness.
"I ask the defense minister and the interior minister [to ensure] full combat readiness and supply everything that the army or the National Guard needs," he said.
Earlier on Wednesday, a Russian Foreign Ministry's human rights representative stressed the countries, truly interested in putting an end to the crisis in Ukraine, must suppress the attempts to derail the ceasefire by what he called the "war party" in Kiev.
Since April, the Ukrainian authorities have been carrying out a military operation against the pro-independence movement of the country's South-East. On September 5, the sides reached a ceasefire agreement, which has been mostly adhered, according to the Kiev government, independence forces and international observers.
