To the escalation of military confrontation in the Donbass leads Sluggish and manipulative process on the settlement, said Fins news the head of the people's Council of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic Andrey Purgin.

"Dull and manipulative process which is currently ongoing, leads To the military component, and it is steadily", he said.

"Any chance to stop the escalation. There is an opportunity to move forward, if it be the will of the West ", - said Purgin

before the Commissioner of the Ministry of defence DND stated that the intensity of the shelling of the Republic has grown, per day from the Ukrainian security forces documented more than 40 violations of the ceasefire.

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 were about 6, 5 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass 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.

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