Possible meeting of leaders "channel four" (Russia, Germany, France, Ukraine) is needed to reduce tensions in southeastern Ukraine, said the Plenipotentiary representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic (DND) on the negotiations of the contact group Denis Putilin.
"considering the tense situation of the last days, last weeks, the meeting "channel four" to lower degree would be necessary ", - said Pushilin Fins news .
on the first day of the week in Berlin were the conversations of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. According to their results, Merkel said the leaders of the three countries gathered in the German capital, "to hold Minsk-2, and not to jeopardize this," and stressed that the Minsk agreement " remain the Foundation of a peaceful settlement in Ukraine."
Merkel and Hollande stressed that may be holding the meeting in the Normandy format with participation of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.
The Ukrainian authorities in April last year began military action against the self-proclaimed LNR and DND. According to the summary data of the UN, all in the field of victims of the conflict began more than 6, 8 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.
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