German foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier tried to convince to perform consensus on the separation line and the discharge of heavy military equipment in the East of Ukraine.

" If, for example, the program of separation of the parties will not only be signed, but starts to run, on an ongoing basis and on the basis of the separation line can be set up to what point it is necessary to take heavy weapons, and on the basis of the Minsk Protocol would have the opportunity to continue and what actually was, namely the exchange of prisoners ", he said on Tuesday following the meeting with the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov.


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 residents 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.

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