Russian President Vladimir Putin, Germany’s Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko have had a telephone conversation to discuss a set of measures for peace settlement in southeastern Ukraine that was endorsed at the marathon four-partite talks in Minsk last week, the Kremlin press service said on Tuesday, TASS reports.
“They discussed among other things the issues related to the ceasefire, the pullback of heavy armaments by the conflicting sides and the situation in the area of the southeastern town of Debaltsevo,” it said.
Also, the three leaders exchanged opinions on the current role of the monitoring mission of the European security organization OSCE. They agreed to continue contacts in various formats for assuring implementation of the Minsk accords.
