Tusk and Komorowski comment on Minsk agreement

Ukraine and Russia reached an agreement at a high level meeting in Minsk Thursday. After 16 hours of talks, the parties agreed that a ceasefire should start on February 15. Poland's president Bronisław Komorowski and President of the European Council Donald Tusk said they are pleased with the results of the meeting but emphasized the importance of respecting the ceasefire. "Today's Minsk agreement gives hope. Hope is important, essential, but it is not enough. The real test is whether the ceasefire will be respected," tweeted Tusk. "It is good news. We are hoping the implementation of this agreement will end the crisis. ... The key to solving the problem lays still in Moscow. Poland has been supporting and will continue to support Ukraine in its pro-European direction," President Komorowski said. According to German intelligence, up to 50,000 could have been killed in the Ukrainian crisis over the past 10 months.