Russian President Vladimir Putin talked with French President macron by telephone on the 20th. The two sides believed that the Ukrainian issue should be solved through diplomatic channels. The Russian President's website announced on the same day that the leaders of the two countries expressed serious concern about the sharp deterioration of the situation along the contact line in eastern Ukraine. The two sides believe that a solution should be sought through diplomatic channels under the "Normandy model" in order to achieve a ceasefire and gradually resolve the conflict. Putin said that the escalation of tensions in eastern Ukraine was due to the provocative acts of Ukrainian government forces. NATO continues to provide the Ukrainian government with modern weapons and ammunition to promote Ukraine to adopt military means. As a result, civilians in eastern Ukraine suffered, and they were forced to evacuate to Russia to avoid increasingly fierce artillery attacks. Putin criticized Ukraine for only making a negotiating gesture and said that the Minsk agreement had never been implemented. According to the press release issued by the French presidential palace on the 20th, macron and Putin firmly promised to take all beneficial actions to avoid escalation, reduce risks and maintain peace. The two sides agreed to give priority to resolving the current crisis through diplomatic channels, including resuming work under the "Normandy model"; Promote the tripartite contact group on Ukraine (Ukraine, Russia and the organization for security and cooperation in Europe) to meet in the next few hours to reach a ceasefire commitment, etc. The communique said that macron also spoke by telephone with Ukrainian President zelenski on the 19th and 20th respectively. Zelenski said he would not respond to provocations and abide by the ceasefire agreement. On the 18th of this month, there was an explosion at the seat of the government of the "people's Republic of Donetsk" established by civil armed forces in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian civilian armed forces subsequently announced that due to the risk of military operations launched by Ukraine, they would evacuate local residents to Russia on a large scale from now on. Rostov State Government in southern Russia announced on the 19th that the state will enter a state of emergency from now on due to the continuous increase in the number of refugees pouring in from udong region. In April 2014, a large-scale armed conflict between Ukrainian government forces and civilian armed forces broke out in Donbas, eastern Ukraine. Through the mediation of the international community, the two parties to the conflict reached a ceasefire agreement in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, in September 2014 and February 2015 respectively. Since then, large-scale armed conflicts in eastern Ukraine have been controlled, but small-scale exchanges of fire have occurred from time to time. (Xinhua News Agency)