The authorities of Ukraine should abandon the economic blockade of Donbass, and Not to offer humanitarian aid, said the Plenipotentiary representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic in Minsk talks Denis Putilin.

on Sunday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a press conference on results of negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the leadership of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics to prevent Ukrainian humanitarian aid to the South-East of the country.

"Ukraine has organized a humanitarian catastrophe in the Donbass, and even now, in DRIBs and drabs wants to solve its demonstration by sending to us humanitarian aid. We don't need this. Just remove the blockade, more from Kiev and Not required ", - quotes the expression Pushilin

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand people.

The settlement of the situation in the Donbas is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict. The last document is dated 12 February - in addition to the ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons and creating a security zone, obliges the Authorities of Ukraine to engage in direct dialogue with the authorized DND and LNR, for example, on the issue of conduct in local elections, entering into the Constitution of Ukraine of change, involving the decentralization of Power, as well as on the issue of legislative recognition of special status of separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ".

the results of the last meeting of the contact group 6 may present turned out to form four working sub-groups on specific aspects of de-escalation of the conflict. It is envisaged that they will start operating already in the middle of may.

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