Permanent representative of the USA to the UN Samantha Power does not consider that the overwhelming number of received damage as a result of the confrontation in the Donbass damaged from the actions of the Ukrainian security forces.

"It's highly unlikely, based on the reports of the UN and the OSCE," - said the Power at the hearings before the Committee on international relations of the house of commissioners.

However, she was unable to say how many people died from "separatists" and did not specify what data the UN and the OSCE she has in mind.

so the envoy answered the Question of a member of the division of Dana Rorabacher that only one of the participants asked to be whether that the majority of civilians in Eastern Ukraine was damaged from the shelling of the security forces.

Power also announced the official figure of deaths in the conflict, which leads the UN, but expressed the view that the real number of victims is more as " separatists keep (experts) on its territory."

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of the population of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict were about 6, 5 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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