The head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that the truce in the East of Ukraine in General observed.

"Discussed the truce And the ceasefire (in Eastern Ukraine). We are encouraged that the ceasefire in the East of Ukraine in General observed. And that creates opportunity to move forward to a political peaceful settlement of the fall in Ukraine ", - said the NATO Secretary General on the talks with Lavrov.

The military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of Donbas lasts more than a year. At the meeting of the contact group, which took place on 26 August in Minsk, the parties to the conflict agreed on the need to achieve a ceasefire in the Donbass on September 1. The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko met with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's September 13, summed up in practice, full compliance with the ceasefire regime in the Donbas since the end of August this year.

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