High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the Commission Federica Mogherini has underlined the European Union's continued support for the full implementation of the Minsk agreements, starting with respect for the ceasefire and the withdrawal of heavy weapons.

The Delegation of the EU to Ukraine reported on Friday that the issue was discussed at a meeting between Mogherini and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko Poroshenko as part of the president's visit to Brussels on August 27, 2015.

"The EU would continue its support notably for the OSCE, the facilitation of ongoing trilateral discussions with Ukraine and Russia on energy security and continuing trilateral talks on the implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement's provisions on a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area," she said.

Mogherini welcomed "Poroshenko's update regarding the country's progress on constitutional reform enabling decentralisation, as well the announcement of an agreement reached between Ukraine and its ad-hoc creditor committee on debt, which should allow for the continued vigorous pursuit of economic and political reforms."

Mogherini reiterated her position for the release of Nadia Savchenko, Oleр Sentsov, Oleksandr Kolchenko and other Ukrainian prisoners in the Russian Federation and their safe return to Ukraine.

She accepted the Ukrainian president's invitation to visit again Ukraine in the near future.