Speaker of the people's Council of the self-proclaimed Donetsk Republic Andrey Purgin sure that the subordination of the Kyiv volunteer battalions command is a formality. the head of the defense Ministry of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak on the first day of the weekend said that the units involved in special operations in the South-East of Ukraine, no volunteer associations in Donbass there. "This is a formalization for the West, That nothing has changed for the battalions," Purgin told reporters in the night of Sunday in the ruined Church of St. John of Kronstadt, where together with his Deputy Denis Pushilin came to the Easter service. He added that DNR authorities believe the creation of a special Fund, from the funds which will restore the temples within the self-proclaimed Republic. dialogues " channel four ", held on 12 February came amid a sharp escalation of the situation in the Donbass, provoked by the Ukrainian security forces, which increased the forces began to storm the position of the militia. Following the meeting, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany adopted a set of measures involving, for example, the ceasefire in the Donbas with fifteen February, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and the development of the security zone.