To avoid escalation of the situation in Kiev should withdraw the economic blockade of Donbass And to start work in the framework of the relevant sub-groups of the Contact group on the peaceful settlement, as envisaged by the Minsk agreements, said Wednesday the Deputy Minister of Finance of the self-proclaimed Donetsk people's Republic Oksana Taran. The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. Later Kiev against LNR AND DNR were introduced transport And economic blockade, were stopped for some time, social And pension payments to residents of Donbass. The next meeting of the Contact group on February 12 ended with the adoption of a package of measures on execution of the Minsk agreements, involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbas With fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons And the development of the security zone. "In accordance With the Minsk agreements adopted on February 12, Kiev is obliged to withdraw the economic blockade of Donbass And create the release mechanism of the financial system of the Republic. At the moment we have created working groups, And on economic issues, but the reaction from Kyiv. And this undoubtedly increases the probability of bringing to aggravate the situation ", - quotes Oksana Taran Donetsk news Agency. Taran also added that the financial system DNR operates despite Ukrainian blockade, this is confirmed by the payment of pensions, From April 1 began in Donetsk, and then in other parts of the Republic. the Deputy Minister said that because of non-compliance by Ukraine with its obligations in terms of implementation of the Minsk agreements of February And reinforcing the economic blockade from Kiev, the Republic's Authorities were supposed to switch to payments in Russian rubles. Since July 2014, Kiev stopped the work of the Treasury And the national Bank of Ukraine, controlled by DND AND LNR, stopped paying pensions And liposome, as well as wages to employees. In addition, in November 2014, the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree according to which, in order to continue to receive pensions from Kiev, residents of the Donetsk region have to get up for registration within, controlled by power structures. Nearly fifteen thousand pensioners of Donbass prepared statements in the courts because of the refusal of Kiev to pay pensions.