The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has terminated the direct secure telephone line between Kyiv and Moscow, which had been in place since 1998, announced Taras Melnychuk, the Permanent Representative of the Cabinet of Ministers to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament – ed.). The website of the Verkhovna Rada contains Resolution No. 156 “On the Conclusion of an Agreement between the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the Government of the Russian Federation on the Organization of a Direct Secure Telephone Line between Kyiv and Moscow” dated February 16, 1998. “The Agreement between the Ca…