The Ukrainian authorities have accused the militia of Donbass in the use of weapons prohibited by the Minsk agreements.

"Illegal equipped weapon creation twice used the Minsk agreements prohibited mortars with a caliber of 120 millimeters, and Also twice used artillery caliber 122 mm near the village of Sands. Also gunmen armed provocations in the region, Novotroitsk, " he said at a press conference on Sunday, the Commissioner of administration of the President of Ukraine on problems of special operations in the Donbass Alexander Matusevich.

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, 2 thousand people.

The settlement of the situation in the Donbass discussed during the meeting in Minsk of the 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 the formation of 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 sub-working groups on specific aspects of de-escalation of the conflict.

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