The foreign Ministry expressed hope that the positive effect of the postponement of the elections in the Donbass
Moscow hopes that the decision of the proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk people's Republic to postpone the elections will help the political settlement process in Ukraine, said the official authorized Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. "Important was the message of commissioners of Donetsk and Lugansk to postpone local elections in the Donbass in February 2016 ", ? leads her words RIA "Novosti ""We hope that this step will create a favorable atmosphere for further discussions on key issues of political settlement, which ultimately, will enable the parties to the conflict not only to discover common language and to bring closer the positions, but also to achieve mutually acceptable solutions to existing issues" ? Zakharova said. Tuesday DND and LNR told about the consent to the postponement of elections on October 18 and November 1 for the following year ". On Wednesday, the Ukrainian head Petro Poroshenko said that the conclusion to postpone the elections in DND and LNR saved the Minsk agreement. According to him, the postponement of elections "opens the way for the return" of Ukraine in the Donbas With the help of elections under the Ukrainian legislation. This Poroshenko said that the Donbass come this truce, but it's not the end of the war.
in the DNR commented that the postponement of local elections are needed in order to give Kiev time to meet the obligations under the Minsk agreements. Kiev believes that to return to the legal field of separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions want to cancel the election results November 2, 2014. The Commissioner of Kiev in the sub-group on humanitarian issues Iryna Gerashchenko also said that the date of elections in Donetsk and Lugansk out Ukrainian Rada. Contact group on Ukraine in the near future will focus on the development of the law on local elections, which will give the opportunity to spend them in Accordance with the Minsk agreements, said the OSCE. This decision by the republics of Donbass applauded in the capital of Russia, in Ukraine, in Paris, the US and the EU. According to the source, the DPR and the LPR agreed to postpone the election with the abolition of "anti-terrorist" operations.