The head of the defense Ministry of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak said on the first day of the week, since mid-February, when a truce was declared in the East of the country, lost their lives more than 100 soldiers of the APU and more than 50 civilians.

according to him, the militia of Donbass violated the truce more than 4 thousand times. He added that documented 120 attacks of settlements.

"in the end (during this period - ed.) have lost the lives of more than 100 soldiers of the military power of Ukraine and more than 50 civilians", He said during the meeting of the inter-parliamentary Council Ukraine-NATO in Kiev.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat citizens of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6, 4 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. The last document is dated 12 February - in addition to the ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons and creating a security zone, obliges the Authorities of Ukraine to engage in direct dialogue with the authorized DND and LNR, for example, on the issue of conduct in local elections, entering into the Constitution of Ukraine of change, involving the decentralization of Power, as well as on the issue of legislative recognition of special status of separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ".

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