Russia and the United States agreed to continue bilateral contacts on the issue of Ukraine, according to a report by the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation following the meeting of state Secretary-Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Grigory Karasin with the U.S. assistant Secretary of state Victoria Nuland. "There was a substantive discussion of a wide range of issues related to the Ukrainian crisis. In this context, stressed the importance of establishing a direct dialogue between the Kiev authorities, the commissioners of Donetsk and Lugansk, strict observance by the conflict parties signed on 12 February 2015 " Complex of measures on execution of the Minsk agreements ", which is a solid basis for a comprehensive settlement ", - is informed in the report. the foreign Ministry stressed that Karasin and Nuland also exchanged views on possible ways of bilateral cooperation between Russia and the USA in terms of assisting a peaceful political resolution of the current Ukraine crisis. "An agreement on the continuation of Russian-American contacts on the issue of Ukraine ", - reported in the explanations.