The American military attach? visited the area of conducting special operations in the Donbass, is notified on the official website of the press center of special operations in the Facebook on the first day of the week. As they say, in the framework of bilateral cooperation between the Armed forces of Ukraine and the USA Ukrainian Soldiers performing tasks in the area of the special operation in the Donetsk region, met with the commissioners apparatus attach? defence at the US Embassy. The meeting participants discussed the issues of security, social and humanitarian situation in the area and risk assessment. Where exactly was soveshenee, in the press center not reported. "Officers of the U.S. armed forces Joseph Hickox and Michael van Develde familiarized with the current situation on the demarcation line and the Ukrainian Soldiers perform Minsk consensus," It is also stated that the military staff of the foreign Ministry communicated with the competent local authorities, who have told him about the state of Affairs in the settlements located in the area of conducting special operations. U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt on the last working day of the week said that U.S. Marines arrived in Ukraine, only about 300. First of Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren reported that in the training of three battalions of the national guard will be part of about 290 soldiers of the 173rd airborne brigade of the United States, which is based in the Italian city of Vicenza. According to the head of the MIA of Ukraine Arsen Avakov, the trainings will be held with the participation of 900 national guard soldiers, three flows of 300 fighters. The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand people. The next meeting of the contact group on February 12 ended with the adoption of a package of measures on execution of the Minsk agreements, involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbas with fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone. Soon after informing truce in the Donbass resumed shooting, the parties blame each other in violation of the "silence" and report that conduct only return fire. dialogues " channel four ", held on 12 February came amid a sharp escalation of the situation in the Donbass, provoked by the Ukrainian security forces, which increased the forces began to storm the position of the militia. Following the meeting, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany adopted a set of measures involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbas with fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone.