Foreign Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin said that the special monitoring mission of the OSCE should be strengthened, since the observers do not have the opportunity to test the facts of concealment of weapons in the Donbass.

"We need to SMM (Special monitoring mission of the OSCE - ed.) are fully controlled the situation in Donetsk and Luhansk. Currently They do not have access. They do not have the opportunity to check out where the hidden heavy weapons, we must really help SMM ", - said Klimkin.

He has supplemented his words by the fact that the Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia S. V. Lavrov also supports the strengthening of the mission.

above the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in conversation with the head of EU diplomacy Federica Mogherini said on the need for international efforts to accommodate peacekeepers in the Donbass.

Poroshenko and Mogherini agreed bestlocation the extension of the OSCE mandate, strengthening the technical and functional abilities SMM, which must make more than effective monitoring and verification of the ceasefire regime and the withdrawal of equipment.

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.


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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