Security situation in Eastern Ukraine remains alarming

This is despite the spring truce announced at the meeting of the Tripartite Contact Group t in Minsk, said the negotiating parties. The diplomats noted the reduction of tension on the contact line, but noted that it is not yet possible to achieve strict observance of the ceasefire. As a result of the meeting in the Belarusian capital, the parties managed to agree on a mechanism for the restoration of mobile communication in the non-Kiev-controlled territory of Donbass. The next meeting of the Contact Group is scheduled for early April. By the way, today's meeting was held without a permanent participant in the negotiations - OSCE representative Martin Sajdik. The Austrian diplomat could not arrive in Minsk from Kiev due to non-flight weather.