The Russian foreign Ministry has denied message, according to which in the Donetsk region is the meeting of the Russian and Ukrainian military on the issue of a buffer zone between the positions DND, LNR and the Ukrainian side.
" The Ministry of foreign Affairs denies appeared in the media a letter to Reuters about the fact that if in the Donetsk region there is a kind of meeting of the Russian and Ukrainian military is by definition " a buffer zone between the positions of DND and LNR and the Ukrainian side, " Said the report on the Internet office of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. In this regard, the Ministry stressed that " all the problems associated with the implementation of the ceasefire regime, are discussed between representatives of the Ukrainian side and the representatives of different regions of Donetsk and Lugansk regions "." The role of the Russian side, as a member of the Contact group, is to, in cooperation with the OSCE mission to assist this process the necessary assistance, " the Ministry added. In mid-April, the Kyiv authorities have begun in the East of Ukraine " special operation " to suppress the protest movement in the Donbass. Military is actively used heavy machinery and military aircraft and helicopters. Mentions a large number of killed and wounded among the civilian population and the destruction of the homes of residents and infrastructure. In September in Minsk hosted two meetings of the Contact group (representatives of Kiev, Russia and the OSCE) with manual DND and LNR. According to their results, were signed on 5 September an agreement on stopping the fire, and then, on September 19, the final Memorandum of stopping the fire and the creation of the 30-kilometer zone on the contact line between the warring parties.

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