The sub-group on political issues at a meeting in Minsk on Tuesday will again raise the issue of holding elections within the self-proclaimed Republic of Donetsk (DNR) and the special status, told reporters the Plenipotentiary representative of the DND in the contact group Denis Putilin.

"Our position has not changed, we have stated that what happened in the Verkhovna Rada, the law for which he voted, has nothing to do with that piece of legislation, which we were ready to negotiate. For this reason, within the subgroup will continue discussion of the electoral law in our territory, the law on the special status and other ", - said Pushilin.

at the last meeting of the trilateral contact group on settling the situation in Ukraine, which took place on 26 August in Minsk, the parties agreed on the need to achieve a ceasefire in the Donbass from September 1 - that is, from the beginning of the new academic year.

The ceasefire starts amid clashes in Kiev, caused by the introduction of the Verkhovna Rada of change in the Constitution of Ukraine. At the same time Authorized the DNR has already revealed that even these changes are only " simulated execution of the Minsk agreements ".

The Ukrainian authorities in April last year began military action against the self-proclaimed LNR and DND. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6, 8 thousand people.

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