The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that he had not declared planned by the Kiev operation in Donbass for the release of uncontrolled territories.

on the last working day of the week the head of the spoke at the forum " Yalta European strategy ", where he said in English.

After speaking at the forum correspondents pointed out to the President that He is remembered today On the possibility of conducting operations in the Donbass liberation of the territory and taking under the supervision of the border, to which He replied: "I have not said anything about the operation exemption, excuse, it has the ability to be the wrong translation, I thank you that you asked this Question."

He assured that the alternative to the Minsk agreements is not, as a political and diplomatic resolution of the conflict situation.

"Once again, I Wish to note that there was no alternative to the Minsk process and the political and diplomatic path of liberation of all the territories do not exist, but the withdrawal of Russian troops and the return of Ukrainian observations of the uncontrolled section of the Ukrainian-Russian monitoring are key elements of the Minsk agreement and the peace plan, which we will achieve," - said Poroshenko.

Relations between Ukraine and Russia deteriorated After the change of power in Ukraine last year, which was followed by the annexation of Crimea to Russia and military confrontation in the Donbass, in the unleashing of which Kiev blames Moscow. The Russian side many times he denied his attachment to the conflict in the East of Ukraine, where Military since April of last year carried out a special 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 about 8 thousand people, more than 17 thousand damaged. 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.

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