Groisman signed a law granting special status to the Donbass
The head of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Groysman signed a Law granting special status to the Donbass after the local elections, according to Ukrainian legislation and sent the document to the President for signature. in the status of the registration of the document on the Internet office of the Verkhovna Rada says he sent for signature Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday. The law will take effect from the day following the day of its promulgation in the official media, reports RIA " Novosti ". Before Wednesday Authorized Luhansk national Republic urged Kiev to agree with them the list of localities with special status. Before that, the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov said that the decisions of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the status of Donbass violate the Minsk consensus, in fact they're rewritten. First on the same day the leaders of the Donetsk and Lugansk national republics Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Carpenter in the General statement stressed that there are no compromises with Kiev impossible, until will not be lifted "shameful decision" of the President of Ukraine and Verkhovna Rada of the special status of Donbass. And the speaker of the national Council of Donetsk national Republic Andrew Burgin said that the next meeting of the contact group on Donbass will be meaningless because of the actions of Kiev. On Tuesday, the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the resolution on the recognition of individual areas of Donbass occupied at the time. In addition, the Verkhovna Rada approved the appeal of the President of Petro Poroshenko in the UN security Council and the EU Council on the deployment within the country international peacekeeping and security. Before that, people's deputies of the Ukrainian Parliament adopted amendments in the Law on the special status of Donbass, according to which some areas of Donbass beyond the control of Kiev, will be endowed with a special status only after the local elections according to the laws of Ukraine and under the supervision of international observers.