US Vice President Condemns Increasing Violence in Eastern Ukraine

• 02.20.2016, 23:40
•  Europe,  America,  World

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The US Vice President Joe Biden condemned the growing violence in eastern Ukraine and called on the parties to the conflict to implement the Minsk agreement, the White House stated in a release following Biden’s phone conversation with Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko.

The Minsk agreement was signed by representatives of the Kiev government and the Donbass militias in February 2015 to deescalate the situation in eastern Ukraine.

"The Vice President condemned the increasing violence in eastern Ukraine — which has led to a deteriorating humanitarian situation — and the continued failure by combined Russian-separatist forces to allow the OSCE full access to the areas under their de facto control," the release stated on Thursday, as the Sputnik News reports.

Biden also said the implementation of the Minsk agreement by all sides remained the best way forward for resolving the conflict.

In recent times, according to the Ukrainian media, tensions in the conflict are observed in the Donbass region and despite the relative peace, which is now established between the parties, the situation remains tense.

The European partners put pressure on the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko to implement the Minsk agreements and call to establish a final peace. However, for solving the problem in the Supreme Rada, Poroshenko is likely to hold early parliamentary elections this year.

Ukrainians who are tired of the war and the collapsing economy, are turning away from "Maidan" politicians more and more.

According to Poroshenko's calculations, he will "return" Donbas during his second term as president of Ukraine.