The European Union is obliged to refuse new punishments towards Russia after the armistice in Ukraine made in Minsk, wrote the head of Department for international Affairs of the state Duma Alexei Pushkov on the first day of the weekend in his own microblog on Twitter.

" Given the truce made With the filing of Putin, the EU should abandon new sanctions against Russia. At the present time need not punishment, and steps to the world, " Pushkov wrote.


the head of the Russian Federation centuries Putin announced the action plan of the seven points. The head of the Russian Federation proposes to stop offensive operations on both sides of the Donetsk and Lugansk directions to take with weapons division of law enforcement bodies of Ukraine in length, excluding the possibility of shelling settlements, to build the exchange of prisoners by the formula " all in all ". Putin also considers it necessary to open humanitarian corridors in Donbass and to send repair crews to restore infrastructure, to build international monitoring of compliance with the ceasefire.

yesterday in Minsk hosted the second meeting of the contact group on the settlement of the situation in Ukraine. Kyiv authorities and the self-proclaimed Republic came to an agreement on the truce.

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