The participants of the contact group on Ukraine nourish the hope that the meeting in Minsk on 8 September will be a draft agreement about the withdrawal of heavy weapons, said on the last working day of the week, the Plenipotentiary representative of the self-proclaimed LNR on Minsk talks Vladislav Danego.

"On 8 September will be a meeting in Minsk of the contact group and all the workers bodies. The main Issue there would be considered, the withdrawal of weapons with a caliber of 100 millimeters and mortars of a caliber of 120 millimeters. The hope is that by this time the draft document, to be fairly balanced, will be prepared, and maybe 8, we'll be able to consider his signing ", - quotes the expression Danego Lugansk information center.

first Plenipotentiary representative of the self-proclaimed DND Denis Putilin said that he considers it possible additional video conferencing to face-to-face meeting of the contact group on settling the situation in Ukraine in Minsk on 8 September.

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. 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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