The crisis in Ukraine has a negative impact on cooperation between Russia and the West in solving the Syrian conflict, said the Deputy head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Mikhail Bogdanov.
The Ukrainian authorities began in April in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat in the region. According to the UN, the victims of the conflict were more than 4, 8 thousands of civilians. The ninth of December in the Donbass began a consistent militias and security forces through the mediation of the OSCE another truce. On January 9, the intensity of attacks in the region has increased, and among them fired residential areas of Donetsk.
"Objectively, we must acknowledge that the continued decline in Ukraine has a negative impact on our cooperation With Western partners on the Syrian crisis," said Bogdanov in an interview to television channel.
As said a senior diplomat, " there is no serious and necessary interaction between Russia and the West to find commonly acceptable solutions for the speedy resolution of the conflict situation in Ukraine ".
According to Bogdanov, the Western partners were divided in their assessments, did the Ukrainian crisis had an impact on developments in Iraq and Syria." We hear from some of our Western partners, the statement about the fact that there is no connection between all of these crises. Others, however, suggests that such communication takes place, " said the Deputy Minister.
in the Syrian Arab Republic Since March 2011 continues with weapons of conflict, as a result of which, according to the UN, lost their lives more than 200 thousand people. Government forces are opposed by the division of terrorists belonging to various armed groups. The most active militants grouping " Islamic state ". Wide expansion of the IG, seized a large area of Iraq and Syria, was one of the main issues in the world of 2014.
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