The self-proclaimed head of the Donetsk national Republic Alexander Zakharchenko said on the first day of the week that Minsk consensus does not work, because the Ukrainian Military has not taken the artillery and the installation of volley fire from the line of contact in Donbas.

"at the moment it's safe to say that the Ukrainian army took no artillery, no installation of volley fire. This is fixed not only by us. For this reason, don't work the Minsk consensus, " said Zakharchenko in the air.

He drew attention that " Kiev stubbornly ignores the issues that concern the political and economic life of Donbass.

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 thousand people. The problem of settlement of the Ukrainian fall under negotiation in different formats, for example, at the meetings of the contact group in Minsk with the mediation of Russia and the OSCE.


dialogues " channel four ", held on 12 February came amid a sharp escalation of the situation in the Donbass, provoked by the Ukrainian security forces, which increased the forces began to storm the position of the militia. Following the meeting, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany adopted a set of measures involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbas with fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone.

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