The head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergei Lavrov called a gesture of goodwill continued Donbass participate in negotiations with Kiev in the framework of the contact group. "And what now remains within the contact group are quite constructive meeting on the harmonization of the number of sub-working groups, their, like, mandates And membership of the is a manifestation of a very great good will militias" - Lavrov said in a conversation with the CEO of MIA "Russia today" Dmitry Kiselev. He explained that Authorized self-proclaimed Luhansk And Donetsk national republics continue to maintain contact, though, And believe that "adopted by the Verkhovna Rada, which has been turned upside down all of the sequence of the Minsk agreement, they are really doing, undermine the efforts of the heads of States And governments" channel four ". The Ukrainian authorities have taken in April of last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup of the region's residents. According to the final data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand people. The problem of Ukrainian settlement fall under negotiation in different formats, for example, at the meetings of the contact group in Minsk, under the mediation of the Russian Federation And the OSCE. The next meeting of the contact group on 12 February ended with the adoption of a package of measures on execution of the Minsk agreements, involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbass from February fifteen, the withdrawal of heavy weapons And the development of the security zone. According to the document Kiev must end the economic blockade of Donbass, to carry out constitutional reform, involving decentralization, And to coordinate with the DNR AND LC the law on the special status of the region. However, on 17 March, the Parliament of Ukraine has defined the zone of action of the law on the special status of Donbass, accompanied by his amendment that would have kept the entry into force of the law before the Donbass local elections.