The Minsk agreement on the settlement of the situation in Ukraine need protection from international " war party ", said on Tuesday the head of the state Duma of the Russian Federation on international Affairs Alexei Pushkov.

review Pushkov, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko wants to play along with those political forces in the U.S., which strikes at the present time the supply of lethal weapons to Ukraine ", and the Europeans are pushing for new sanctions against Russia.

"Poroshenko wants to play along with the "war party" in the heart of Kiev, who seems ready to continue the war, because war is the condition of preserving the Power of the "party of war" in Ukraine. In this situation the Most important is to preserve the Minsk agreements. The most important is the protection of these international agreements of the "war party," said the people's Deputy at the meeting of the state Duma.

The Ukrainian authorities have taken in April of last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup of the region's residents. According to the final data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand people.

The problem of Ukrainian settlement fall under negotiation in different formats, for example, at the meetings of the contact group in Minsk, under the mediation of the Russian Federation and the OSCE. The next meeting of the contact group on 12 February ended with the adoption of a package of measures on execution of the Minsk agreements, involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbass from February fifteen, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone. Soon after informing truce in the Donbass resumed shooting, the parties blame each other in violation of a "silence" and report that conduct only return fire. Kiev is considering an appeal to the UN and the EU on the introduction in the Donbass peacekeepers.


dialogues " channel four ", held on 12 February, came amid a sharp aggravation of the situation in the Donbass, provoked by the Ukrainian security forces, who, having increased strength, began to storm the position of the militia. Following the meeting, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany have taken a set of measures involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbass from February fifteen, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone.

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