The head of the French Republic Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday held a regular telephone conversations with the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, according to a communique of the Elysee Palace.

in the process of communication of the head of France and Germany got acquainted with the situation in Ukraine, once the current military units were kept under observation for several cities in the Southeast of the country.

" They (Hollande and Merkel) underlined the importance of achieving a political settlement, based on bilateral agreements to stop the fire, the introduction of the mechanism of border monitoring with the assistance of the OSCE and the release of the hostages ", - is written in the appeal of the administration of the French President.

it is said that in the coming days Hollande and Merkel will discuss the situation in Ukraine with the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.


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 local citizens 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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