Putin: seven -day truce is not enough

Vladimir Putin said that a seven -day ceasefire is not enough to resolve the situation in eastern Ukraine. “It’s not enough to announce a truce - you need to start substantive negotiations, as the diplomats say, is essentially a problem,” RIA Novosti reports Putin’s replica at a joint press conference in Vienna with Austrian President Hinnets Fisher. Putin added that Russia has already brought this position to President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.

In this regard, the Russian leader welcomed negotiations, which were held on the eve of Donetsk . “The fact that the dialogue has begun is, in my opinion, this is an extremely important point,” he said.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, terrorists, despite the truce, continued attacks on the security forces. In particular, the Ukrainian Pravda reports , a Ukrainian military helicopter Mi-8 was shot down near Mount Karachun near Mount Karachun. The press secretary of the ATO headquarters Vladislav Seleznev specified that nine people were on board the helicopter and all of them, according to preliminary information, died.

Later on Tuesday, Seleznev also wrote about the attack of terrorists on checkpoints around Slavyansk. Attacks were carried out using small arms, automatic grenade launchers AGS-17 and mortars. Nobody was injured among the Ukrainian military.

Meanwhile, the attack on the supporting point of the ATO forces near the border with Russia, the exact location of which Seleznev did not indicate, led to losses from the security forces: the two military were killed, three more were injured. In addition, the Ukrainian BMP was damaged. The terrorists fired an object from mortars, and also launched anti -tank guided missiles.