Poroshenko instructs Yeliseyev to talk with France, Germany over ban of envoy to Russia

17:42, 21.03.2016 1 min read

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has instructed deputy head of president's administration Kostiantyn Yeliseyev to discuss with the European ambassadors of France and Germany a response to the decision to ban MP Iryna Heraschenko entry into the Russian Federation.

"I've instructed deputy head of president's administration Kostiantyn Yeliseyev to hold talks with the European ambassadors involved in the 'Normandy Four' format about how to respond to the ban on a PACE member, the president's commissioner for Donbas peace settlement I. Heraschenko to Russia," reads a president's post on Facebook.

Poroshenko said the incident "is evidence of a systemic failure to implement Minsk Agreements."

It was reported earlier on Monday that Heraschenko, a representative of Ukraine in the political subgroup of the trilateral contract group on the peaceful settlement of the situation in Donbas, had been denied entry into Russia until 2021.