The Minsk agreement gave the self-proclaimed DND access to an international platform to define their position, but also opened the opportunity to cease hostilities, said at a meeting with students of the Plenipotentiary representative of the DND in the contact group Denis Putilin. "The Minsk agreement is necessary because it is an International Playground, and they need to stop fighting. You remember how it was until February 12, when every day as a result of the attacks was to hundreds of deaths and injuries. After February 12, the intensity of attacks has decreased greatly and I hope that this situation will not be ", - said Pushilin. He added that in the currently visible positive changes." at present, We are seeing important messages from Ukraine, when is the demobilization, repealed the next wave of demobilization. We are approaching the time when it will be possible to move on to political issues. Due to the Minsk agreements we have access to an international platform, and when the meetings take place in Minsk, they attracted the attention of the world community ", - said the Plenipotentiary representative of the DND. The Ukrainian authorities in April last year began military action against the self-proclaimed LNR and DND. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began almost 7, 9 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. at the meeting of the contact group, which took place on 26 August in Minsk, the parties to the conflict agreed on the need to achieve a ceasefire in the Donbass from 1 September. The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko met with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's September 13, summed up in practice, full compliance with the ceasefire regime in the Donbas since the end of August this year.