Dmitry Zlatarev. The U.S. government supports the Minsk agreement on Ukraine and emphasize that the overall level of violence there has decreased. "We support the Minsk agreement and consider them to be the obvious method to address this decline and restore the territorial integrity of Ukraine," said 1st Deputy Secretary of state Anthony Blinken correspondents in the course of a telephone press conference dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the end of world war II in the European Union. authorized the U.S. Department of state acknowledged that " the overall level of violence has decreased as well." However, in his vision, in some areas the violence has increased. the assurances Blinken " violent action comes almost only from the separatists and Russia, which supports them ". However, he was sure that the Authorities of Ukraine to fulfill their commitments under the Minsk agreements ". Russia has stated many times that is not a party to domestic conflict and is interested in its early peaceful settlement. 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 settlement of the situation in the Donbas is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict. The last document is dated 12 February - in addition to the ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons and creating a security zone, obliges the Authorities of Ukraine to engage in direct dialogue with the authorized DND and LNR, for example, on the issue of conduct in local elections, entering into the Constitution of Ukraine of change, involving the decentralization of Power, as well as on the issue of legislative recognition of special status of separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ". the results of the last meeting of the contact group 6 may present turned out to form four working sub-groups on specific aspects of de-escalation of the conflict. It is envisaged that they will start operating already in the middle of may. One of the most important points signed in February of the Minsk agreements was the constitutional reform, and the enactment of a permanent law on the special status of separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. The agreement notes that decentralization should take place in coordination specifically, the commissioners of these districts, However, the Kiev Authorities are ignoring this provision, arguing about the fact that you are unwilling to have a dialogue with the authorized rebellious territories. Read the full text of the Minsk agreements "