The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko agreed with the U.S. assistant Secretary of state Victoria Nuland further common steps for a peaceful settlement of the situation in the Donbass, said on the Last working day of the week on the Internet office of the head of the Ukrainian country. Nuland is hosted in Ukraine on a visit. Poroshenko informed the interlocutor about the current situation in the Donbass, and also about the actions of the Ukrainian authorities to de-escalate. "The parties discussed and coordinated further common steps for a peaceful settlement of the situation in the Donbass and further implementation of reforms in Ukraine ", - is informed in the report. 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, 2 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 requires the Authorities of Ukraine to engage in direct dialogue with the authorized self-proclaimed 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 sub-working groups on specific aspects of de-escalation of the conflict.