The foreign Ministry of Greece decided to urgently transfer the Consulate General of Mariupol in Dnepropetrovsk in connection with the deterioration of the situation in the East of Ukraine, is reported to have arrived in the Last news message of the Greek authorities.

" in connection with the deterioration of security in the district of Mariupol, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of foreign Affairs of Greece, Evangelos Venizelos adopted the recommendation of the General Consul of Greece in Mariupol Dimitrios Papandreou On the immediate transfer of the office of the Consulate General and its temporary relocation to the city of Dnepropetrovsk, which is located in the consular jurisdiction of the Consulate General ", - reported in the document.

Venizelos was ordered to inform all authorized Greek Diaspora About moving Consulate.

" The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Greece maintains constant contact with the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine to ensure the safety of the Greeks of the Diaspora, living in Ukraine ", - said in the report.

in the Donetsk region is home to the vast number of Greeks of the Diaspora - 77 of 91 thousand thousand.

in recent days, the self-proclaimed militia Donetsk national Republic took Novoazovsk and announced that it is preparing to assault the city of Mariupol.

on Thursday evening speaker information centre of the Council of national security and defense Council of Ukraine Andriy Lysenko said at a press conference that the Ukrainian security forces, who retreated from Novoazovsk, regrouped on the outskirts of the nearby Mariupol.


numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. They were the response of local citizens to violent change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law granting Russian the status of regional language. The center of the Pro-Russian opposition-minded people with power in Kiev became the Donbass. About how developed the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.

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