Local elections in the city of debaltseve, on 18 October will not be held, because it does not fit in the Minsk agreement, said the Plenipotentiary representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic Denis Pushilin.

"Those settlements which are not included so far in the area of our jurisdiction, as long as there will not be elections," - said Pushilin correspondents in the capital of Russia.

"Debaltseve is for as long as the line of demarcation) of 19 September, and this does not fit the complex of measures, however, we have other tools to state institutions were working at full capacity ", - said the representative of DND.

first Chapter DND Alexander Zakharchenko said that the elections of heads of cities and districts in the Republic will be held on October 18.

The head of the DND Alexander Zakharchenko have said before, that elections of heads of cities and districts of the people's Republic will be held on October 18. The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko believes that the holding of local elections in the breakaway DND and LNR will carry devastating consequences for the process of de-escalation in Donbas. For their part, the authorities of the people's republics of Donbass believe that Local elections do not threaten the peace process.

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