The Kyiv authorities are ready for a ceasefire in Eastern Ukraine, said Tuesday U.S. Secretary of state John Kerry.

" The Ukrainians are ready to accept the mutual ceasefire In the present, not in the future but In the present time, " said Kerry, speaking in the capital of the United States, following talks with Minister of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin. According to him, the ceasefire must occur on the basis of the peace plan of President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.

in addition, U.S. Secretary of state said that agreed on Tuesday with the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov, the possibility of specific measures to stop the fire in Ukraine.

" We (with foreign Minister of the Russian Federation) agreed that there is an opportunity to try to nominate the very real proposals to move forward, " said Kerry.

Kyiv authorities from April spend in the East of Ukraine's military operation targeting dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat of the population of the region. In the Russian capital this special operation, which has already led to numerous casualties on both sides and among them among the peaceful residents, called punitive and campaigning Kiev immediately to stop her.



numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of the local population at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, how is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.

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