Residents of Donbas who are forced to go to war, are heroes, because every day looking in the face of death, said the MP of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the " Opposition bloc ", a speech at a rally in Lisichansk. "There are numerous cases, when the miners and metallurgists, chemists and oil chemists who are unemployed and no longer able to contain their wives and children, must go to war," he said. This step pushes people "need, hopelessness and irresponsibility of politicians," he noted. "Even 2 years ago would have been impossible to believe that in the XXI century, in the heart of Europe, in a fairly civilized country will be open hostilities. The current war, euphemistically referred to as ATO, pushed Ukraine's economy for decades ago, " said Koval. in the end of hostilities in the Donbass destroyed cities and villages, destroyed or stopped the majority of enterprises, employing hundreds thousand inhabitants of the region. However, the government has become " an appendage of the international monetary Fund ", the Parliamentarian said. Several months of such incompetent management of the national economy, and it will be difficult to recover, he said. the MP also called cynical and inhuman attitude of the authorities Towards the veterans of the great Patriotic war." in the year of the 70th anniversary of the victory of cynical veterans denied benefits reduced funding, pensions taxed", he said. 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. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbas is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict. The last document is dated 12 February - in addition to the ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons and creating a security zone, obliges the Authorities of Ukraine to engage in direct dialogue with the authorized DND and LNR, for example, on the issue of conduct in local elections, entering into the Constitution of Ukraine of change, involving the decentralization of Power, as well as on the issue of legislative recognition of special status of separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ". the results of the last meeting of the contact group 6 may present turned out to form four working sub-groups on specific aspects of de-escalation of the conflict. It is envisaged that they will start operating already in the middle of may.