Poroshenko, Merkel agree to continue talks on deployment of UN peacekeepers to Donbas

17:00, 20.08.2018 1 min read

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko held a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during which the latter informed him about the results of her talks with the Russian president, which took place in Germany on August 19.

"Poroshenko and Merkel agreed to continue consultations at the level of foreign ministers of the Normandy format on a UN peacekeeping mission in the occupied part of the Donbas," the press service of the head of the Ukrainian state said on Monday.

Poroshenko called for the intensification of efforts to free Ukrainian hostages, who are illegally held in Russia and on the territories it occupied.

"A number of issues on the bilateral agenda were discussed, and it was agreed to continue contacts at the highest level," the report says.