German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron are committed to promoting the political process within the Normandy Four and Minsk formats.
A meeting of the working subgroups of the Trilateral Contact Group on the settlement of the situation in Donbas is taking place in Minsk. The Belarusian Foreign Ministry reported this on Twitter.
The Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) on the settlement of the Donbas conflict has agreed that a full ceasefire must be ensured during Easter holidays, starting from April 1.
Authorities in Belarus have detained Ukrainian journalist Vitaliy Sizov and ordered him to leave the country due to the fact that he was barred from entering Russia.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has welcomed agreements on ceasefire from December 24, which were reached within the framework of the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk. This has been said in a statement made by the Foreign Ministry head, Ukrinform reported.
The European side has expressed interest in helping implement certain aspects of the Minsk process. Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Kostyantyn Yeliseyev said this during a press conference in Kyiv, Ukrinform reports.