To Ukraine arrived the special envoy of the US state Department, Walker

The special representative of the US State Department on Affairs Kurt Volker arrived at the international airport Boryspil near Kiev.

This was announced by the assistant press attaché of the U.S. Embassy Vadim Kovalyuk, writes UNIAN.

According to him, the plane with the special representative of the US Department of state on Board landed today at about 13.00.

In turn, the Embassy said that Walker had planned to spend in Kiev a number of meetings with Ukrainian officials. At the same time scheduled for the 24th of January, the trip to the Donbass is not likely to take place due to adverse weather conditions.

Also, the media reported today, 23 January, he’s going to meet with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.

We will remind, on January 26, the special envoy of the US state Department plans to meet with Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov. The meeting will be held in Dubai. Earlier he said that the negotiations and the peacekeeping mission with Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov was not fruitful, but in January, things can change.

”I still hope that we will be able to achieve, and that Russia wants to solve all of these issues and to restore the territory of Donbass for Ukraine. In this sense, our November meeting was a disappointment that we have not made progress on this issue. But we hope to hold a new meeting in January. And I hope that we will then be able to make progress. Look,” he said.

Videomovie Russian threat. In Moscow say that they will not allow UN peacekeepers on its border

This was stated by Deputy Russian foreign Minister Grigory Karasin. According to him, the Kremlin will protect the political interests of Donetsk and Lugansk, and will not allow you to “close the border” between the Donbass and Russia. Russia insists that blue helmets only protected in the Donbass, the OSCE mission. While the West supports the position of Ukraine – the role of peacekeepers must be extended to the whole occupied territory.

TSN. 12:00

27 December 2017, 12:33

  • USA
  • Donbass
  • Poroshenko
  • Walker

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