He said this at a joint briefing with OSCE Chairman Edy Rama.

“We hope this year we will make quite progressive towards a peaceful settlement and the resolution of the situation in the east of Ukraine,” RIA Novosti quotes Priestayko.

Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry appreciated the efforts of Kiev to resolve the conflict in the Donbass, noting that the new leadership of Ukraine, which came to power in 2019, is in no hurry to implement plans to solve the situation in the south-east of the country.