The head of the Russian Federation centuries Putin in a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President of the French Republic Francois Hollande has said that a Formal response to the proposal for settlement in the Donbass were received from the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko only on the first day of the week, said the press service of the Kremlin.

" He (Putin - approx. Ed.) reminded that another fifteen January sent P. A. Poroshenko a written proposal for the immediate withdrawal of heavy weapons from the line of contact between the opposing sides that would have made it impossible shelling settlements and numerous victims among civilians. A formal response to this appeal was received only today. And before that were launched large-scale military action, due to which the situation in the South-East disastrously deteriorated, " said the report.

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