Deputy head of the presidential administration of Ukraine Valeriy Chaly believes that the meeting in Minsk on August 26, must be the beginning of a real negotiation process on the settlement of the Ukrainian fall.

before the press service of the Kremlin announced that on August 26, the President of the Russian Federation centuries Putin will visit Minsk, where he will participate in the meeting of the heads of the countries of the Customs Union with the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, which will also include the Commissioners of the European Commission. The theme of the meeting will be the attitude of the vehicle from Kiev.

Answering questions of reporters about what topics will be discussed at the meeting, Chaly said, it's a whole set of questions, which includes the situation in the Donbass, and energy, and trade.

" Gently say, but obviously, it's an opportunity to at least begin the real negotiation process that will never End on this day in Minsk, Clear, which will require further steps, for example, 30 quantity in Brussels (where it plans to go Poroshenko - editor), " Chaly said at a press conference on Tuesday.

in the framework of the visit to Brussels, According to Chaly, Poroshenko may hold a number of bilateral meetings with the heads of the EU." I do not exclude that the next ten days this is not the last visits of the President of Ukraine. That is, the transition from diplomacy telephone to direct communication, and it will be a very important week, " he said.


numerous anti-government protests were started in the South-Eastern regions of Ukraine at the end of February 2014. They were the response of local citizens to violent change of power in the country and the subsequent attempt to cancel the Verkhovna Rada of the law granting Russian the status of regional language. The center of the Pro-Russian opposition-minded people with power in Kiev became the Donbass. About how developed the conflict in the South-East of Ukraine.

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