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Moscow -- A Council of Europe team that has monitored investigations by Ukrainian authorities of crisis developments in Kyiv between autumn 2013 and winter 2014 will release its report shortly, the council's Secretary General Thornbjorn Jagland said on Nov. 28. 

Events that were in the focus of the team, called a consultative group, spanned the period from the outbreak of protests on Independence Square in November 2013 to the signature of a peace pact between the government and opposition on February 21, Jagland told a news conference in Moscow after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Jagland said the group might have its mandate extended to cover violence in Odessa in the spring.

The exact date of release of the report was unclear, according to Jagland.

He expressed doubt that the group, in its current format, would be able to take up any other serious events of the Ukrainian crisis.

He said the group had a limited mandate, and that a different mechanism would be needed for investigations on a wider scale.