The meeting of the political sub-group of the contact group on the settlement of the Ukraine Wednesday brought no breakthroughs, but we are making headway, said the Plenipotentiary representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic in the negotiations Denis Putilin.

dialogues of the subgroup on political issues were held Tuesday in Minsk.

"The meeting was held under the expected scenario, not to say that there have been some drastic decisions, but progress, again, there, but not enough to even Ukraine comply with the Minsk agreement, even in terms of the law on elections ", - said Pushilin in interview to television channel " Russia 24 ".

He clarified that adopted today the Verkhovna Rada in the first reading the law on local elections does not comply with the Minsk agreements and those agreements that were reached before in the political sub-group on the issue.

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