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Poroshenko Notes Progress in Minsk Peace Talks With France, Germany

© AP Photo / Mindaugas KulbisUkraine's President, Petro Poroshenko
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko confirmed on Tuesday that progress had been made in the Minsk peace process during a meeting with French and German diplomats, the president’s press office said.

Serviceman of Ukrainian volunteers battalion of Donbass prepares a machine gun on the positions near the village of Shirokine, Donetsk region on June 6, 2015 - Sputnik International
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KIEV (Sputnik) – French President Francois Hollande’s diplomatic advisor Jacques Audibert and German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christoph Heusgen arrived in Kiev on Monday for a two-day visit to discuss reconciliation between the Ukrainian government and Donbas militias.

"Interlocutors noted the progress that Ukraine had made on Minsk agreements, and underscored the importance of a coordinated action for their full implementation," Poroshenko’s press service said.

The two diplomats are expected to call for an end to violence in the east and a full ceasefire, as well as for the release of all war prisoners.

Ukraine has been locked in an armed conflict since April 2014 after Kiev launched a military operation to suppress militias in the southeastern, who refused to recognize the country’s new government after it seized power in a February 2014 coup.

In February 2015, Kiev authorities and militias signed a deal in the Belarusian capital Minsk to put an end to fighting. It called for a ceasefire, arms pullout from the line of contact, and prisoner swaps, among other measures.

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