Poroshenko announced the urgent conversations in the " channel format "
The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said about the plans for urgent talks on the phone in the "channel format" on the settlement in the South-East of Ukraine.
"right now said that there will be an urgent dialogue in the Normandy format in a telephone conference, ? Poroshenko said after a meeting With security officials in Dnipropetrovsk region. He also said that Kiev is obliged to pay maximum attention to the process of de-escalation in the East, and coordination With partners in the global coalition of Pro-Ukrainian ", RIA " Novosti ". Since mid-April last year, the Kyiv authorities are in the East of Ukraine "special operation" to suppress the protest movement in the Donbass. Refers to a large number of dead and wounded among the civilian population and the destruction of houses and infrastructure. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6, 4 thousand People. With fifteen February, the parties to the conflict in the Donbass declared a truce in Minsk after almost 16 hours of negotiations. However, despite the control system of the ceasefire, local clashes and shelling of settlements continues.