Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin Tuesday confirmed that Kyiv received the proposals of the President of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on the settlement of the situation in the Donbass. According to the Minister, Ukraine With its own side insists on the execution of the Minsk agreements.

As said before, the press Secretary of the President of Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, Putin last Thursday sent a written message to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, which contained a plan proposal to the parties on the discharge of heavy artillery, but Kiev is not wanted from him, not recommending anything instead. The discharge of heavy artillery from the separation line in the Donbass is one of the points of the Minsk Memorandum, signed on 19 September at the meeting of the contact group on the settlement of the situation in Ukraine.

" There is a letter to President Putin. As far as I am aware, it many times already commented on, as well as among them Authorized the Russian side. It is the idea of the possibility of withdrawal of troops. Our position is, on the one hand, very simple, and the opposite is absolutely consistent: the execution of the Minsk agreements, " Klimkin said at a press conference in Kyiv.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April 2014 in the Donbass force special operation against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat in the region. According to the UN, the victims of the conflict were more than 4, 8 thousands of civilians. The ninth of December in the Donbass began a consistent militias and security forces through the mediation of the OSCE another truce. On January 9, the intensity of attacks in the region has increased, the " hot " point is the Donetsk airport.

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