Angelina Timofeeva. The situation in Eastern Ukraine remains tense, guarantees a peaceful settlement does not happen, said Tuesday a Source in the German foreign office, explaining the meeting of foreign Ministers "channel four" (Russia, Germany, France, Ukraine), which will be held in Berlin on 12 September. "The situation in Eastern Ukraine remains tense. We are far from being able to stop worrying or to have the guarantees of a peaceful settlement. For this reason, extremely important to continue to be active and try to make further progress, as if difficult it has been, " - said in the appeal of the German foreign correspondents. The source added that the purpose of the meeting of Ministers Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Sergey Lavrov, Laurent Fabius and Pavlo Klimkin will be a " discussion of the situation in Eastern Ukraine and further steps in the implementation of the Minsk agreements ". Ministers of the "Normandy Thursdays" meet for the seventh time In the last 14 months, the first meeting was held on 2 July 2014 in Berlin. The last time the foreign Minister dated 23 June 2015 in Paris. The Ukrainian authorities in April last year began military action against the self-proclaimed LNR and DND. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began almost 7, 9 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass 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.