Natalia Dobrovolskaya. The head of the European Commission (EC) Jose Manuel Barroso hopes that the peace plan of President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko will quickly give the results to de-escalate the situation in the country.

" the head Poroshenko is obliged to present a peace plan later today. We welcome this Development, which must be used to de-escalate the situation, " said Barroso. According to him, " violence must stop illegal groups must be disarmed, and the dialogue is obliged to replace weapons."

" We support this initiative. We hope that it will be able to lead to results very quickly, " said Barroso. According to him, the member countries of the EU will discuss the implementation of this plan at the meeting of the European Council next week.

on Thursday Poroshenko said that the plan of peaceful settlement of the conflict situation will be officially launched on 20 June. As stated before, Made Poroshenko, the plan includes, for example, free use of the Russian language in the South-Eastern regions of the country, as well as extraordinary elections to local authorities.

Kyiv holds mid April special military operation to suppress the independence supporters in the East of Ukraine, do not recognise the legality of the new Ukrainian authorities that came to power in the result of the February coup d'etat.

in the Russian capital this special operation, which has already led to numerous casualties on both sides and among them among the peaceful residents, called punitive and campaigning Kiev immediately to stop her.


numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. It has been the response of the local population at the forcible change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law, giving the Russian language regional status. The center of confrontation between Pro-Russian-minded people with the government in Kiev has become the Donbass. About that, How is the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.

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