Sub-group on security and political issues of the contact group on Ukraine will meet in Minsk on Tuesday, said Last news source close to the negotiations. "Today they work in two groups - on security issues and political problems ", - said the head of the Department. according to him, the subgroup on safety will focus on such issues as demining of the territories and diversion from the contact line in the Donbass weapons up to a caliber of 100 millimeters, mortars and tanks. for its part, the sub-group on political issues will discuss the issue of holding elections of local authorities in the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk regions controlled by the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk national republics. The Ukrainian authorities in April of last year began military action against the self-proclaimed LNR and DND. According to the final data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 8 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbas region is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk the contact group, which since September of last year had already taken 3 of the document, regulating the steps to de-escalate the conflict. The last document from February 12 - in addition to the ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons and the creation of security zones, obliges the Ukrainian Authorities to engage in direct dialogue with the authorized DND and LNR, for example, on the issue of holding 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 Donetsk and Lugansk regions ".