Head centuries Putin on Thursday around midnight held a meeting with permanent members of the security Council, which agreed on the situation in South-Eastern Ukraine, said press Secretary of the head of state, Dmitry Peskov.
" the main topic of the agenda was the situation in the South-East of Ukraine, " he said, reports RIA " Novosti ". In the meeting took part the Prime Minister D. Medvedev A., head of Administration of the Kremlin Sergey Ivanov, security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev and his Deputy Rashid Nurgaliev, the speakers of both houses of Parliament Valentina Matvienko and Sergey Naryshkin, the Ministers of defense Sergei Shoigu, interior Vladimir Kolokoltsev and foreign Affairs S. Lavrov Century, the Director of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the foreign intelligence service Mikhail Fradkov, as Well as a permanent member of the security Council Boris Gryzlov. Also on Thursday evening Putin in a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said about the importance of the ceasefire in the South-East of Ukraine. From its part Poroshenko told Putin about the key points of his plan of peaceful settlement in the East of Ukraine. Remember, since mid-April, the Kyiv authorities are in the East of Ukraine punitive operation against supporters of independence of Donetsk and Lugansk national republics, which told about the desire to separate from Ukraine after the coup d'etat occurred in the country on 22 February after several days of clashes in the centre of Kiev. Active hostilities were stopped at some time during the 25 may presidential elections, but may 26 resumed. Won the elections Poroshenko in the categorical form have asked in the explicit form of the security forces to carry out his official ceremony of inauguration of " cleanup " of the territory of Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Security forces are actively using heavy artillery and combat aircraft. Mentions numerous victims among the peaceful residents and the destruction of houses and infrastructure. In the capital of Russia power a special operation in the East of Ukraine called punitive and campaigning Kiev immediately to stop it.

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