U.S. Secretary of state John Kerry did not exclude that the regime of sanctions concerning the Russian Federation has the ability to be changed if the Minsk agreement will be respected. "I think we will be able in the coming months to ensure executed if the Minsk agreement, as after the last meeting of the Norman group in Paris observed the ceasefire regime and are serious weapons. Then, ultimately, has the ability to change position with respect to penalties, " said Kerry at the meeting With teachers and students at Harvard on Tuesday. U.S. Secretary of state also said that States seek changes in Russia's position towards Ukraine and " will in the coming months to prove whether to do it appropriately." The Ukrainian authorities in April of last year began military action against the self-proclaimed LNR and DND. According to the final data of the UN, the victims of the conflict steel not less than 8 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbas region is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk the contact group, which Since September of last year had already taken 3 of the document, regulating the steps to de-escalate the conflict. From 1 September in the Donbass entered into force another truce, both parties and observers state that it is observed. At the end of September was signed the agreement about the withdrawal of weapons with a caliber of not more than 100 millimeters and tanks from the frontline. The document adopted in Minsk on 12 February, in addition to the ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons and creating a security zone obliges the Ukrainian Authorities to engage in direct dialogue With the authorized DND and LNR, for example, on the issue of holding 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 Donetsk and Lugansk regions ". Moscow has stated many times that is not a party to domestic conflict, support of militias and does not send in the Donbass troops. Anyway, Kiev and the West continues to blame Russia of "military aggression" and occasionally "find" in the East of Ukraine and in the border regions of Russia "certain units" of the armed forces, although international observers in the periodic inspections have never found any undeclared military activities.