"During the meeting the sides discussed in detail the situation in Ukraine, focusing on the implementation of the Minsk agreements, as well as a number of other pressing regional issues," the statement said.
In April 2014, Ukrainian authorities launched a military operation against pro-independence militias in Donbas. In February 2015, the sides reached a ceasefire deal after talks brokered by the leaders of Russia, France, Germany and Ukraine in the Belarusian capital of Minsk.
The deal stipulates a full ceasefire, weapons withdrawal from the line of contact in eastern Ukraine, an all-for-all prisoner exchange and constitutional reforms, which would give a special status to the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics. Both sides of the conflict, however, have been constantly accusing each other of violations of the agreement.
