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Ukraine's FM calls for "political will" for peace

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This is what residents of an eastern Ukrainian town are calling home.

It's a bomb shelter.

People are surviving with the bare necessities.

It's a place where one mother finds safety at a time when she has lost faith in the government.

(SOUNDBITE) YASYNUVATA RESIDENT, ANASTASIA, SAYING:

"Because no one will agree, there is no trust in the president, who waged war on people who wanted independence. There simply is no trust in him."

Memories of war line the streets.

People forage for what they can.

Others just wait.

Against this backdrop Ukraine's Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin at the UN says it will take political will on behalf of Russia for a ceasefire to hold.

(SOUNDBITE) (English) UKRAINE'S MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, PAVLO KLIMKIN, SAYING:

"A couple of days ago in Minsk the trilateral contact group approved - with a representative of Donetsk and Luhansk in a memorandum - withdrawal of heavy weapons from the security