The crisis situation in Ukraine was discussed by Secretary of state-Deputy head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Grigory Karasin and U.S. Ambassador to Moscow John Tefft, said in the Russian international Ministry.

"during the conversation they discussed the problems of settlement of the crisis situation in Ukraine and other important issues on the international agenda," said the Ministry.

on Wednesday in Minsk held a meeting of the contact group (Ukraine, DPR, LPR, OSCE and the Russian Federation) on Donbas. In addition to the negotiations of the contact group, scheduled for may 6, the first meeting of the commissioners of the subgroups on security, political process, economy and humanitarian aspects of the fall.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand people. The problem of settlement of the Ukrainian fall under negotiation in different formats, for example, at the meetings of the contact group in Minsk with the mediation of Russia and the OSCE.

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