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Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Minsk Agreement requires full restoration of relations between Donbas and the rest of Ukraine.

To this end, Putin said at a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Ukraine needs to cancel the decree of former President Petro Poroshenko on the “blockade of the region,” RIA Novosti reports.

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