Volker to arrive in Ukraine next week

U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker will visit Ukraine on Monday, May 14.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told this to journalists in Aachen on Thursday, an Ukrinform correspondent reported.

"On Monday, we are waiting for Kurt Volker, who is coordinator of the U.S. State Department," Poroshenko said.

He noted that German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, as well as U.S. partners, supported Ukraine's position that the security component of the Minsk agreements could not be carried out without a full-fledged peacekeeping force in the occupied Donbas, and thanked them for this position.

As reported, Poroshenko met with Merkel and Macron in Aachen on Thursday.

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