Merkel asked Putin to help to release arrested on Ukraine's military
Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel asked the President of the Russian Federation centuries Putin to assist in the release of the seized in the South-East of Ukraine military observers of a number of European countries, said the press service of the Kremlin.
on Thursday on the initiative of the German side had a telephone conversation with Merkel and Putin.
" Continued the discussion of the crisis development of the social-political situation in Ukraine. Merkel sent a petition to assist in the release of the seized in the South-East of Ukraine military observers from a number of European countries, and among them Germany, " said the report.
at the end of last week at some of the checkpoints near Slavyansk Authorized militia on suspicion of espionage tied eleven members of the military mission of the OSCE. As a result of negotiations one of the arrested is suffering with diabetes Swedish officer - was released. On Wednesday the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov Century said that Moscow is campaigning for the release of OSCE observers, but can't decide for local militias.
numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of local citizens at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, how is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.