The head the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin called 3 themes that remain critical For the state on the Donbas: a ceasefire, exchange of prisoners and elections according to OSCE standards. "For us, 3 themes remain critical: the ceasefire, exchange of prisoners, and elections according to OSCE standards," wrote Klimkin in his own Twitter on the results of talks between the foreign Ministers "channel four" in Paris. He also said that countries "channel four" reaffirmed their commitment to the Minsk agreements. 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 were about 6, 5 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, as well as among them during the meeting in Minsk of the 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 ".