Ukraine’s President and US Vice-President discuss situation in Eastern Ukraine – ITAR

KYIV, November 11. /TASS/. Ukraine’s President Pyotr Poroshenko and U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden had a telephone conversation on Monday, in which they discussed the situation in much-troubled war-torn Eastern Ukraine, the presidential press service said.

The two men noted “a departure from the implementation of the Minsk accords (reached in September 2014 – TASS),” the report said. They said this led to a further escalation of tensions.

Poroshenko and Biden also discussed the latter man’s forthcoming visit to Ukraine that has been scheduled for November 21.