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"The Minsk protocol envisages the restoration and preservation of Ukrainian sovereignty on all the territory of the Donbass (in eastern Ukraine), including that controlled by the fighters," Poroshenko said.

"There is no question of federalisation or separation of any Ukrainian territory."

The European Union and United States have imposed economic sanctions against Russia over its role in Ukraine, prompting Moscow to retaliate by banning most Western food imports.

The EU has prepared another wave of sanctions targeting Russia's banking and energy sectors but has held off implementing them to see whether the ceasefire holds.

On Wednesday, Poroshenko signed a law allowing Ukraine to impose its own sanctions against Russian firms and individuals deemed to be backing the separatists in eastern Ukraine.

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In Prague, the chairman of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which is monitoring the ceasefire, said it would be reasonable to allow more time for the peace process before imposing more sanctions against Russia.

Didier Burkhalter, who is president of Switzerland, also said the OSCE would soon deploy drones to monitor the ceasefire.

Human rights group Amnesty International said in Moscow it had documented evidence of war crimes by both sides and also repeated criticism of Russia's role in the conflict.

"Amnesty International has called the conflict in Ukraine an international conflict and Russia a party to that conflict," the group's secretary general, Salil Shetty, told a news conference.

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Published September 10, 2014

September 9, 2014: Students march during a military training exercise in a military school in Boyarka, near Kiev, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

KIEV, Ukraine Ukraine's president promised Wednesday to introduce a bill as early as next week that would offer greater autonomy to rebellious regions in the pro-Russia east, where separatists have been battling government troops for almost five months.

But President Petro Poroshenko said the regions would remain part of Ukraine and rejected the idea of federalization, something both Russia and the Russian-backed separatists are still pushing for even after a cease-fire that began Friday.

The cease-fire agreement, reached in Belarus, "envisages the restoration and preservation of Ukrainian sovereignty over the entire territory of Donbas, including the part that is temporarily under control of the rebels," Poroshenko said during a televised Cabinet meeting. "Ukraine has made no concessions with regards to its territorial integrity."

Ukraine and the West have repeatedly accused Russia of fueling the separatists with arms, expertise and even its own troops, something Russia denies. In late August, NATO estimated that more than 1,000 Russian troops were operating on Ukrainian soil, helping to turn the tide of the war in the rebels' favor.

Poroshenko has struggled to paint the Minsk cease-fire agreement reached as the rebels waged a major counteroffensive that pushed back the Ukrainian troops who had encircled them as a victory rather than a defeat. Poroshenko says since the agreement, 70 percent of the Russian troops in Ukraine had been withdrawn.

He also said 700 Ukrainian prisoners had been freed from rebel captivity and expressed hope that another 500 would be freed by the end of the week.

It was unclear, however, how many of those freed were soldiers rather than civilians. Col. Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council, told journalists Wednesday that only 20 servicemen had returned home so far. In Donetsk, a rebel spokesman said a planned exchange of 36 soldiers from each side had been put off until Thursday, blaming the government for the delay.

The president admitted that "implementing the cease-fire is very difficult" and accused separatists of "provoking" the Ukrainian troops.

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Teen mob attacks Kroger employees in knockout game in Memphis, Tennesse
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Teens arrested for "knockout game" violence in Memphis
The violent knockout game has become increasingly popular around the country. The goal is to knockout strangers with a single punch. A mob of Memphis teens attacked a man as he attempted to...

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Ten teenagers and one adult are under arrest after a brutal mob attack at a Memphis grocery store.

And at least one witness said the teens appeared to be playing the so-called "knockout game," CBS News correspondent Don Dahler reports.

It's unclear if this was gang-related or had to do with the knockout game, or both, but the violent game has become increasingly popular around the country. The goal: to hit unsuspecting strangers and knock them out with a single punch.

According to police, the mob started beating a customer as he got out of his car in the store's parking lot.

Investigators say that when two employees came to help, the teens attacked, kicking them until they lost consciousness.

A witness said some of the kids threw pumpkins at one of the unconscious victims.

"It didn't seem real," a witness said. "It didn't seem like any of that would happen."

The witness, who asked not to be identified, said this was part of a violent game.

"They were playing a game called 'point them out, knock them out' where they would point someone out and attempt to knock them out or fight them. There was no real reason behind it," the witness said.

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