The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko convened an emergency meeting of the Council, informs the press service of the head of the country.
the meeting of the Council of national security and defense of Ukraine under the chairmanship of the President of Petro Poroshenko will be held today, 25 January, at eleven. 00 local time (12. 00 MSK), UNIAN reports. Yesterday Poroshenko instructed to urgently convene a meeting of the Council in connection with the deterioration of the situation in the East of the country. In recent days the situation in the conflict area for the Ukrainian security forces has deteriorated significantly: countermeasures militia adopted in order to push the front line from the cities of Donbass, forced the supporters of the Kiev authorities to retreat. The leader of the DND Alexander Zakharchenko on the first day of the weekend said that he gave the order to open fire suppression positions of the Ukrainian security forces East of Mariupol. In the Ministry of defence DND refute called provocation message Ukrainian law enforcers about the fact that the militia fired Grad rockets civilian targets in the city. Also Zakharchenko said that the militia does not want to storm the city. In addition, Chapter DND promised in a few days to eliminate the so-called debaltseve ledge - a collection of Ukrainian troops in the area of residential settlements Debaltsevo, poluobnazhennuyu, but continue to threaten the Donetsk and Kyiv.


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