Lavrov said the contribution of the leaders of Germany and France in the negotiations in Minsk
Foreign Minister S. Lavrov Century, said that the Russian Federation appreciates the connection to the settlement of the fall in the Ukraine, the leaders of Germany and France, which contributed to performance "channel" negotiations at the highest level. "Appreciate the energetic connection to work (on the settlement of the fall in the Ukraine) Chancellor (Merkel and French President (Hollande), which has led to the successful completion of literally a couple of hours ago the summit in the "channel" format in Minsk, "Lavrov said during the solemn meeting dedicated to the Day of diplomatic service, RIA" Novosti ". Dialogues of the leaders of Russia, France, Germany and Ukraine centuries Putin, Francois Hollande, Angela Merkel and Petro Poroshenko in "channel format" ended on Thursday morning. The duration of the negotiations exceeded 13 hours. Thursday afternoon the President of the Russian Federation centuries Putin said that in the negotiations was signed Document of the contact group on measures aimed at the implementation of the Minsk agreements. The document envisages a ceasefire in the Donbass 00. 00 local time fifteen February, the withdrawal of all heavy weapons on both sides of the conflict " at equal distances width of at least 50 miles between them "