Ukraine's new pro-western president Petro Poroshenko on June 1 urged the EU to act more decisively in standing up to Russia while defending his decision to end a 10-day ceasefire, launching instead an offensive on pro-Russian militant separatists in the country's breakaway eastern regions.
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Guards of the self-proclaimed \"Donetsk People's Republic\" keep watchs in the town hall of the besieged Ukrainian city of Slavyansk on June 24, 2014.
