The head of the Council of Europe Donald Tusk in a telephone conversation invited Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday to participate in the meeting of the European Council, where they will discuss the Situation in the Donbass.

Tusk and Poroshenko discussed the situation in the East of the country, and among them artwar in Kramatorsk, where they were injured 63 people. Poroshenko expressed his hope to address the situation through diplomatic negotiations at a meeting in Minsk on Wednesday.

"Tusk invited the President Poroshenko to participate in the meeting of the European Council held in Brussels on Thursday, February 12 to discuss the situation and coordinate the following steps, according to the report, published on the Internet office of the Ukrainian President.


The situation in the Donbass very quickly escalated in January, once the Ukrainian Military, taking advantage of the truce and building up forces in the South-East of the country, began to storm the position of the militia, starting With. the General staff of Ukraine said that " the Ukrainian army has enough personnel and equipment to deal the final blow ". While the chief of staff Viktor Murzenko, though many times heard before the attacks against the capital of Russia, admitted that the departments of the Russian army within the country there.

After a sharp increase in the number of victims among the civilian population, militia told about what to protect yourself shelling of residential areas.

One of the most hot spots of conflict between the security forces and militias in the Donbass was Debaltsevo, the area in which the environment gets larger grouping of the Ukrainian military. See the Last photo service covers newsworthy news

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