Elections in the Donbass discussed working sub-group on political issues in Minsk, said the head of the delegation of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic in the contact group on settling the situation in Ukraine, Vice-speaker of the people's Council DND Denis Putilin on Thursday. "The law on local elections in the Donbass will be presented for discussion by the sub-working group and we hope that the Ukrainian side will not shy away from discussing it, as the sub-group came to a common vision on the issue of including in the agenda the question of the modalities of local elections ", - reported in circulation Pushilin, the text of which leads Donetsk news Agency. 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, 2 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass 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, about the conduct in local elections, entering into the Constitution of Ukraine of change, involving the decentralization of Power, and the 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 sub-working groups on specific aspects of de-escalation of conflict: economic issues and restoring objects