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Ukraine is preparing to withdraw artillery in the east as violations of a truce between the government and rebels failed to halt momentum toward a settlement of the countrys worst conflict since World War II.

The army said it will move heavy weaponry to the edge of a buffer zone. Casualties are a fraction of the level seen before the Sept. 5 truce and groups that may not be controlled by the militants or Russia were mostly responsible for the breaches, President Petro Poroshenko said. Shelling of towns in the Donetsk region has dropped by an order of magnitude, said Andrei Purgin, a senior official in the self-proclaimed Peoples Republic of Donetsk, according to RIA Novosti.

Fighting in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which started after Russia annexed Crimea in March, is at a stalemate. More than 3,200 people were killed and 8,000 injured, according to the United Nations. The deal to create a demilitarized zone of 30 kilometers (18 miles) was reached Sept. 20 in Minsk, Belarus.

Both Kiev and Moscow have an interest in relative calm in the short term, but their longer-term objectives remain fundamentally at odds, Eurasia Group analysts led by Alexander Kliment said by e-mail. The buffer zone agreement reached in Minsk will likely support the current highly tenuous cease-fire, at least through the Ukrainian Rada elections in late October.

The fighting has caused about $440 million of damage in the conflict zone, where more than 70 percent of businesses have shut down and the availability of food is fragile, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a report dated Sept. 19.

More than 275,000 people have been internally displaced, though the number can be assumed to be much higher because of the lack of a registration system, according to the report. About 341,000 people have fled abroad, including more than 300,000 to Russia, it said.

Russia has granted refugee status to more than 110,000 Ukrainians, Federal Migration Service chief Konstantin Romodanovsky said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

The Ukrainian army has set up checkpoints to maintain the buffer zone, military spokesman Vladyslav Seleznyov said yesterday on Facebook. Illegal, uncontrolled armed groups are shelling Ukrainian positions, with troops only opening fire in response, he said.

The preparation to pull back heavy weapons is under way, Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for the National Security and Defense Council, told reporters yesterday in Kiev.

While separatists are retreating from non-strategic positions, two soldiers have been killed and another two wounded, according to Lysenko. No shelling or violations of Ukraines airspace have been reported from Russia, he said.

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Ukraine to Shift Artillery From Frontline as Truce Holds

Rebel leaders also said they were ready to give peace a chance after 5 months of bloodletting that set off the most serious East-West crisis since the Cold War

EXCHANGE. A Ukrainian prisoner of war is greeted near a bus during an exchange of Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels, near Kostyantynivka village, about 60 kilometers from Donetsk, Ukraine, 21 September 2014. Alexander Ermochenko/EPA

KIEV, Ukraine The Ukrainian military said Monday, September 22, it was preparing to pull back its guns from the frontline in the separatist east as a fragile truce with pro-Russian insurgents appeared to be taking hold.

Rebel leaders also said they were ready to give peace a chance after 5 months of bloodletting that set off the most serious East-West crisis since the Cold War.

Across the rebel-held regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, the level of violence appears to have subsided although Kiev said it lost two soldiers in overnight raids by "armed gangs".

The deaths bring to 39 the number of Ukrainian troops and civilians killed since the warring sides signed a September 5 truce that NATO's top military commander warned at the weekend was holding "in name only".

But hopes of peace gathered pace after the ceasefire was reinforced Saturday by another deal signed in Minsk calling for the withdrawal of fighters to allow the creation of a 30-kilometer (20-mile) buffer zone.

"We are making preparations to move back our heavy weapons 15 kilometres from the frontline," said Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council spokesman Andriy Lysenko.

'There is a chance'

The "deputy prime minister" of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Andrei Purgin, said the rebels were ready to carry out their side of the bargain even if it was "with great difficulty".

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Ukraine prepares pullback as truce holds

22nd September, 2014

DONETSK, Ukraine: Ukraine insisted Sunday it would not pull back its troops from the frontline until all sides cease fire under a peace plan aimed at ending five months of bloodshed in the east.

Kiev and pro-Russian rebels are supposed to pull back their forces and weaponry to create a 30-kilometre (20-mile) wide buffer zone in line with a reinforced truce deal agreed in Minsk on Saturday.

But heavy gunfire erupted around the eastern insurgent stronghold of Donetsk on Sunday, just hours after NATOs top military commander had said there was a ceasefire in name only on the ground.

National Security and Defence Council spokesman Andriy Lysenko said the first point agreed in the Belarussian capital referring to a mutual ceasefire had to be respected before the rest of the plan could be implemented.

But the first point has not yet been fulfilled, so we cannot speak about the other points, he said.

If (Ukrainian forces) are withdrawn, it will be done simultaneously with the Russian troop withdrawal.

The nine-point Minsk plan is meant to reinforce a truce forged on September 5 in a bid to stem fighting that has claimed nearly 3,000 lives since April and threatened Ukraines very survival.

A rebel who identified himself as a member of Donetsk Peoples Republics military intelligence said Ukrainian forces were continuing to shoot on insurgent positions around the airport although the attacks had dropped off in intensity and firepower.

But when they fire we respond, of course, the man who gave his name as Denis told AFP. Each side wants to show the other they are still there.

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Its purpose is to render an unsuspecting victim unconscious with a single sucker-punch.

"The Knockout Game" is the name given to the phenomenon by media outlets and law enforcement officials, and it's a possible motive investigated each time a victim is felled in an apparently random, one-blow assault.

Has it made its way to Staten Island?

That's what authorities are investigating aftera 58-year-old womantold authorities she was sucker-punched as she rode the S76 bus on Thursday. The woman said she was talking on her phone when someone in a group of youths that was sitting behind her punched her in the back of the head for no apparentreason andfled.

"Somebody hit me very badly in the back of my head, really badly, like the roof fell down on the back of my head," she said.

Here's a look at some notorious recent incidents in the city that have been investigated as possible "Knockout Game" attacks:

PREGNANT WOMAN PUNCHED

In August, six-months-pregnant Brooklyn resident Jannatul Ferdous was walking along the sidewalk in the borough's Bedford-Styvesant section when a man walked up anddrilled her, according to the New York Post.

She was knocked unconscious, but neither she or her child were critically hurt, the reports said. The Post reported the attacker did not know her and the incident appeared to be random.

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