Vladimir Dobrovolsky. The authorities of Ukraine After the local elections are obliged to focus on the reforms, and among them the legislative work for the implementation of the Minsk agreements, said the European Commissioner for neighbourhood policy and enlargement negotiations Johannes Hahn.

"After the local elections in Ukraine now we have to focus on reforms, including legislative (action - ed.) in the context of implementation of the Minsk agreements," Khan wrote on Twitter.

Local elections were held in Ukraine on Sunday on the new electoral law. In the Donbass elections were held only in part of the territories controlled by Kiev. They were not carried out in 91 local Council in Artemovsk, Volnovakha, Volodarsky, Konstantin, Maryino, Starobeshevo, Yasinovatskiy districts of Donetsk region, and similarly in the towns Avdiyivka, Artemivsk, Horlivka, debaltseve, Dzerzhinsk, Dokuchayevsk and Konstantinovka.

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.

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