Telephone conversation with Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron
(World News Russia)

The internal crisis in Ukraine was discussed in view of the disastrous policy of the Poroshenko administration and the change of government in Kiev. There was unanimity regarding the lack of alternatives to the 2015 Minsk Package of Measures as the foundation of a peaceful settlement. The President of Russia again emphasised the need to prioritise the item in force of the law on the special status of certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions and to make it permanent, granting...