The situation in the South-East of Ukraine is gradually getting stabilized, said the head of Department of civil initiatives, former Finance Minister Aleksei Kudrin in new York the session of the Minsk currency exchange.

"Today, we are seeing that joint efforts of Russia And Europe "Normandy format" this is the Situation in Ukraine is normalized. I am sure that President Putin would not forgive yourself escalation. And a decrease of tension ", - said Kudrin.

The Ukrainian authorities in April of last year began military action against the self-proclaimed LNR AND DND. According to the final data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 8 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbas region is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk the contact group, which since September of last year had already taken 3 of the document, regulating the steps to de-escalate the conflict.

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