The mechanism of the trilateral contact group on the resolution of the conflict situation in the Donbass must become more efficient, says the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.

"We must do everything in their power to make the Mechanism of the trilateral contact group more efficient and effective," the press service quoted the President's words Poroshenko, said on Tuesday during a meeting with the OSCE representative to the trilateral contact group Martin Sajdik.

The Ukrainian authorities in April last year began military action against the self-proclaimed LNR and DND. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6, 8 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.

before the OSCE representative on Minsk talks Martin Sajdik said that the contact group on settling the situation in Ukraine agreed on a ceasefire on the contact line in Donbass from 1 September. The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on Tuesday said that for the fifth day in the Donbass are not used artillery and mortars and not die Ukrainian Military.

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