Putin held a meeting with members of the Security Council on the eve of a meeting with Merkel and Hollande

After signing the decree on the call of reservists for military training, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council. This was reported on the official website of the Russian head of state.

The meeting was attended by the head of the Council of the Federation Valentina Matvienko, the head of the presidential administration Sergey Ivanov, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu, head of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov, head of the SVR Mikhail Fradkov and member of the Security Service of the Russian Federation Boris Gryzlov. It should be noted that Patrusheva, Bortnikov and Fradkov, the journalists previously called the most close to the head of state persons.

During the meeting, high -ranking officials discussed the situation in the east of Ukraine, including, as they say, in the context of the upcoming meeting in Moscow with France President Francois Hollande and Chancellor of Germany Angel Merkel. Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, stated that the heads of three states will discuss what can be done specifically to contribute to the early termination of the conflict in the Donbass, which has become aggravated in recent weeks. The meeting was held against the backdrop of NATO statements in Ukraine and Georgia .

Russia, along with France and Germany, is part of the Norman Four, which is engaged in the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine. The ministerial meeting in this format (Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France) took place in Berlin on January 21. The parties agreed to support the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the activation of the work of the contact group after the separatists signed the ceasefire agreement.

However, supporters of the self -proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics then voiced their plans for the attack on Ukrainian positions and captured the Donetsk airport .

After that, Mariupol was fired at, during which about 30 people were killed, about a hundred were injured. In the West, they have guilty for the tragedies of the separatists. The next round of the Minsk negotiations on January 31 did not lead to anything. According to the latest UN data, the number of those killed in the conflict zone exceeds 5358 people, more than 12 thousand 235 people were injured.