Leaders "Channel four" in the process of talking on the phone on Wednesday highlighted the progress towards the achievement of the ceasefire in the Donbass, informs the website of the President of Ukraine.

"The sides stressed the great progress towards a ceasefire and stressed the need of signing in the near future document about removal from the contact line of tanks, cannons with a caliber of 100 mm and mortars up to 120 mm with proper monitoring and verification regime removal from relying SMM OSCE, for example by creating a continuously operating points along the line of contact ", - Reported in the report on the Internet office of the President of Ukraine. Since mid-April last year, the Kyiv authorities are in the East of Ukraine "special operation" to suppress the protest movement in the Donbass. Refers to a large number of dead and wounded among the civilian population and the destruction of houses and infrastructure. 1 September in the Donbass began a ceasefire, which the parties to the conflict agreed on 26 August in Minsk during the last meeting of the contact group on settling the situation in Ukraine. On 6 September, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that has worked hard to create a plan " B " to resolve the situation in Donbass, but leaves no hope for the implementation of the Minsk agreements.

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