Dmitry Zlatarev. The U.S. does not consider that the European countries are changing their policies towards Ukraine, said on Thursday Deputy assistant to the President for national security Ben Rhodes. "We do not see any desire of Europeans to move away from the (current) policy towards Ukraine," Rhodes said in the course of a telephone briefing at the beginning of the summit of the big "seven" in Germany. for its part, senior counselor of the state security Council at the White house on European issues Kupchan said "transatlantic unity" on this issue. For example, he noted, "German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the head of Barack Obama standing shoulder to shoulder" in matters related to the resolution of the fall in Ukraine. 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, 4 thousand people.