Kyiv hopes that a new meeting in Minsk format will take place next week, said the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin on the results of its participation in the Ministerial meeting of the OSCE in Basel.

" We hope it will happen next week, " said Klimkin.

before the last working day of the week the Minister said that the preparation for the next meeting on Ukraine in Minsk format goes, but the exact date until not defined. He also called the attainment of actual ceasefire in the Donbass priority of Kiev in the near future.

Kyiv authorities began in April in the East of Ukraine military operation against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat in the region. According to the summary data of the United Nations, victims of the conflict were 4, 3 thousands of civilians, almost 10 thousand were injured.

first it was announced that the ceasefire is put on the area of Donetsk airport from the evening of 2 December, however, the parties alleged violations. On the days the parties have agreed to enter it again, but on the square of Donbass, from 9 December. It is planned that the ceasefire will be preceded by new talks in Minsk in the format of Ukraine, DND and LNR brokered by Russia and the OSCE.

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