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The release of Ukraine’s political prisoners from Russian jails and opportunities to deploy the UN peacekeepers in the combat area in eastern Ukraine – these were the main topics of the phone conversation between President Petro Poroshenko and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

According to the presidential press service, the head of the Ukrainian state informed the interlocutor on the latest developments in Donbas. ‘The sides discussed the more active involvement of the UN in the solution of the situation in the region – specifically, by deploying the international peacekeeping mission in occupied Donbas,’ the message says.

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