DND and LNR: the dialogue may continue after the cessation of attacks on Donbass
The main condition for the continuation of the negotiations of the contact group in Ukraine - an end to the shelling of Donbass Ukrainian security forces, told the envoys of the self-proclaimed DND and LNR on Minsk talks in private General statement.
"The first and most Important condition for the continuation of the negotiations - an end to the shelling of civilian towns of Donbass from the Ukrainian security forces using heavy weapons," said the statement.
yesterday the official Kiev and the self-proclaimed Republic accused one another in the escalation of the conflict in the background of another failure in the negotiations. In Minsk the first day of the weekend held a regular meeting of the contact group in Ukraine, it arrived the self-proclaimed ambassadors of Donetsk and Lugansk national republics Denis pusillin and Vladislav Deinega, negotiator from Kiev, ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, as well as the OSCE representative, Heidi Tagliavini, and Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov. As said Last news Plenipotentiary LNR, the negotiators did not sign the final document, the discussion continues.
Kyiv authorities began in April in the East of Ukraine military operation against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat in the region. According to the summary data, the victims of the conflict began more than five thousand civilians, more than 10 thousand were injured, about a million became refugees. The ninth of December in the Donbass began a consistent militias and security forces through the mediation of the OSCE another truce. On January 9, the intensity of attacks in the region has increased, and among them fired residential areas of Donetsk. Read more in help Last news