According to the newspaper Kommersant, the leaders spoke on the phone four times since the beginning of the year.
Despite the stiff opposition of Russia and Ukraine, presidents Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko, the ongoing contacts.
According to the publication, citing sources in Kyiv and Moscow, from the beginning, the leaders spoke on the phone four times.
The last conversation took place on 21 February at the initiative of the Ukrainian side and lasted about 20 minutes.
It is noted that these contacts are for obvious reasons not disclosed, and if they will report, “critics of the Ukrainian President in the radical camp will get another reason to accuse him of collusion with the aggressor behind the people”.
The publication claims that one of the issues on which Moscow and Kiev remain divided, there remains the question of the settlement of the situation in the Donbass.
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