President, Ministerial body discuss Ukraine situation

The President and the Ministerial Committee on Foreign and Security Policy in its meeting on Friday discussed various issues including government’s new Strategy for Arctic Policy and the present situation in Ukraine, said an official press release.

They also discussed the Report on Development Policy Across Parliamentary Terms, which the Government will adopt in its General Session this spring.

The Security Committee’s annual report on the security of society in 2020 was also presented at the meeting.

Since the beginning of this year, a new round of confrontation in eastern Ukraine's Lugansk and Donetsk regions, together known as Donbas, has claimed the lives of 20 Ukrainian servicemen and injured 57 others, according to data released by Kiev, reported Xinhua.