Vladimir Dobrovolsky. The prospects for settlement of the situation in Ukraine depend, and among them, the EU strategy towards Russia, says the head of the European Council Donald Tusk.

EU leaders on Thursday will hold a strategic discussion about the relations with Russia during a working dinner, no action is expected.

" We will not find short-term, long-term solution for Ukraine without adequate and constant, solid and responsible strategy towards Russia, " said Tusk reporters before the EU summit.

according to him, " a modern, stable, independent Ukraine will have to be some kind of base of this new strategy."


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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