Meeting of the contact group on settling the situation in Donbas will be held in Minsk on 26 August, despite the deteriorating situation, said the Plenipotentiary representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic Denis Pushilin.

"we have an understanding that it is necessary to 26 the number to come out with Some solution for the remaining time should come. So again to spend a lot of time and not to get a result only a very did not want ", - quotes " Russian news service ".

according to the results of the videoconference in the Donbas Authorities of the breakaway republics stated that in September and October will be held a series of negotiations of the contact group and its subgroups.

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, 8 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.

Last document - a set of measures of implementation of the Minsk agreements signed on February 12, except for a ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons and creating a security zone requires the Authorities of Ukraine to engage in direct dialogue with the authorized DND and LNR, for example, on the issue of conduct in 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 the special status " of certain districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ".

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