The situation in the Donbass against stabilized, but the slippage of the implementation of the Minsk agreements is maintained, said Tuesday the President's press Secretary Dmitry Peskov. "and in truth, From 1 September there was a relative stabilization. In truth, praise God, now almost no shelling of the Ukrainian armed forces civilian settlements in the Donbass. In this sense, of course, to note changes for the better, but conceptually, if you go under other items of the contract, and not only to talk about the ceasefire and the withdrawal of the arms of some other caliber from the line of contact, here, unfortunately, to state the promotion is hardly necessary and is unlikely to be. Still thrashing, I mean on the conceptual aspects of the Minsk agreements - legal, Amnesty, elective subjects ", - quotes the expression Peskov RIA " Novosti ". recall, on Tuesday, the Contact group on Ukraine has started a new round of talks in Minsk. Dialogues are held in " Executive hotel ", which is located in the center of the Belarusian capital. From Kiev the meeting of the contact group departed ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma. One of the key issues of this meeting is the approval of the document on the withdrawal of weapons with a calibre less than 100 mm in the Donbass. This document is scheduled to be agreed at their last meeting of the contact group, which took place on 26 August, and the parties continued the discussion on the past 2 days, but have not reached a consensus. On the first day of the week the Commissioner of Kiev in the contact group on settling the situation in Donbas, the former President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma said on the feasibility of the extension of the Minsk agreements of February if they will not be executed until the end of the current year. Slightly above the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that has worked hard to create a plan " B " to resolve the situation in Donbass, but leaves no hope for the implementation of the Minsk agreements. Since mid-April last year, the Kyiv authorities are in the East of Ukraine "special operation" to suppress the protest movement in the Donbass. Refers to a large number of dead and wounded among the civilian population and the destruction of houses and infrastructure. According to the UN at the end of July, the victims of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine began more than 6, 8 thousand People, at least 17 thousand have Received damage of health.
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