The head of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has influence on the Donbas, which can help achieve a truce and start peace process, the leaders of the "Norman Quartet" is used to measure the forces, said German Chancellor Angela Merkel after the meeting with the Russian President in the capital of Russia.

"We spoke about it, spoke about military operations near Shirokino and at the Donetsk airport, and about the danger that military operations are able to resume. We assured one another that the Minsk package of measures is what we have, is the Foundation to try to find a peaceful solution, " he said.

"I think everyone uses their influence, I think the President has some influence on the separatists so that We at least reached a truce and the start of a political process," she added.


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.

One of the most important points signed in February of the Minsk agreements was the constitutional reform, and the enactment of a permanent law on the special status of separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. The agreement notes that decentralization should take place in coordination specifically, the commissioners of these districts, however, the Kiev authorities are ignoring this provision, arguing about the fact that you are unwilling to have a dialogue with the authorized rebellious territories. Read

the results of the last meeting of the contact group 6 may present turned out to form four working sub-groups on specific aspects of de-escalation of the conflict. It is envisaged that they will start operating already in the middle of may.

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