"Channel four" will discuss the document on the settlement in the Donbass

Leaders channel four, which includes the Russian Federation, France, Germany And Ukraine, will conduct telephone conversations in Sunday to continue work on a joint document on the resolution of the conflict situation in the South-East of Ukraine And intermediate results.

This was preceded by the meeting of the head of the French Republic Francois Hollande And German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, And then the dialogue of heads of France And Germany, with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The theme of the meeting was the Situation in Ukraine And discussion of the country's withdrawal from the fall.

As expected, the two sides will sum up the intermediate results And will continue working on the document at the resolution of the conflict situation in Ukraine. It is known that he aimed to implement the Minsk agreements And includes the proposals of the heads of all countries.


Held In the Russian leadership dialogues in the Russian capital, Berlin And Paris unanimously described As constructive.

The President's press Secretary Dmitry Peskov the meeting was called conversations constructive And meaningful.

the Commissioner of the German government, quoted also said that Germany evaluates held in the capital of Russia exchange of views with leaders of Russia, France And Germany on the situation in Ukraine As a constructive And meaningful.

referring to the French Authorities have informed, that in Paris also considered past dialogues As " constructive And meaningful ".

later the British foreign Ministry said that the settlement of the conflict is impossible without the participation of the United States. And already on the first day of the weekend in Munich development of negotiations on a peaceful settlement of the situation in the Donbass discussed Poroshenko, Merkel And Vice-President of the United States Joe Biden.


the head of France said that the dialogues are one of the last chances to defend the war in Ukraine. According to him, in case of success to achieve will not work, the events in Ukraine will develop a specific scenario, which name is war.

The Chancellor of Germany during the Munich security conference said that she had no guarantees of execution of the Minsk agreement on Ukraine, because this process has been many times broken. According to Merkel, " despite the disappointment, it is necessary to work on ", but After this experience with safeguards need to be very careful.

Authorized Russia look at the situation more optimistic. Head of the state Duma international Affairs Alexei Pushkov believes that the dialogues in the capital of Russia give a chance to peace.

Director of the Kyiv Center for political studies And conflictology Mikhail Pogrebinsky believes that planned for Sunday telephone dialogue in "channel format" demonstrate about what took place in the capital of Russia meeting of the heads of Russia, France And Germany had some success.

The negotiator from the self-proclaimed Lugansk people's Republic Vladislav Danego explaining the leaders of Russia, France And Germany in the Russian capital, said that he has hope for a meeting of the contact group in Minsk After planned on Sunday talks in " Norman format ".


The Ukrainian authorities began in April 2014 in the Donbass military operation against disgruntled happened last February by the coup d'etat of the region's population. According to the summary data of the United Nations, victims of the conflict were more than 5, 3 thousands of civilians.

The Russian foreign Ministry on Thursday said that at the expert level discussion of the idea of sending UN peacekeepers. The official representative of the Ministry Alexander Lukashevich was unable to complement, could this topic be lifted in the process of meeting the leaders of the three countries in the Russian capital.

at the beginning of the negotiations In the management of the Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said that Moscow wants to carry on a conversation based on the achievement of certain agreements that would contribute to resolving the situation in Ukraine, establishment of direct dialogue between Kyiv And authorized Donbass, the negotiations of the contact group, the restoration of economic relations between Kyiv And the South-East.

the Commissioner of the Kremlin noted that the meeting in this format encouraged a sharp aggravation of the situation in Ukraine. Ushakov said that if it was implemented the proposal to the parties to the conflict in Ukraine on the challenge of artillery, " maybe we would have to defend the bloodshed of the last days ".


The situation in the Donbass very quickly escalated in January, then As the Ukrainian Military, taking advantage of the truce And building up forces in the South-East of the country, began to storm the position of the militia, starting With. the General staff of Ukraine said that " the Ukrainian army has enough personnel And equipment to deal the final blow ". While the chief of staff Viktor Murzenko, despite the many times heard before the attacks against the capital of Russia, admitted that the departments of the Russian army within the country there.

After a sharp increase in the number of victims among the civilian population militia told about what to protect yourself shelling of residential areas.

One of the most hot spots of conflict between the security forces And militias in the Donbass was Debaltsevo, the area in which the environment gets larger grouping of the Ukrainian military. See the Last photo service covers newsworthy news "Situation in the area of" develasco boiler "


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