The upcoming meeting of the contact group in Ukraine, which announced this week, will confirm that the Minsk group format is still relevant polled Last news professionals. However, in their vision, Breakthrough solutions from negotiations should not be expected.

The Ukrainian government first told that the Minsk meeting on the settlement of the situation in the Donbass will be held on 9 December, the militia made a proposal to hold a meeting on December 12. Plenipotentiary representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic in Minsk talks Denis Putilin said on the first day of the week that the meeting of the contact group will be held in Minsk this week - as soon as Kiev confirms the agenda, including the ceasefire, the lifting of the blockade And the entry into force of the law on the status of Donbass. At the last meeting in September Authorized Kiev And self-proclaimed Donetsk And Lugansk national republics under the mediation of the OSCE And Russia agreed on a truce, However, the parties have mentioned many times about its violation.


" Breakthrough agreement at the forthcoming meeting can hardly wait. The fact, if it takes place, will be a breakthrough moment. This means that the Minsk process is not dead, and still continues, And is an attempt resuscitation ", - said Last news leading research worker of the Institute of questions of international security, Russian Academy of Sciences Alexei Fenenko.

in his vision, the West And Russia will try to freeze the conflict in Ukraine on the Transnistrian script.

" The chances that such a meeting will be held in Minsk - 50 to 50. And from Russia And EU countries there are active attempts to " freeze " the conflict or " freeze " on the Transnistrian script. In 1997 was the capital Memorandum, which established a group of external mediators and the parties agreed that in the future to build the format of participation in the framework of a single country. Has the ability to be an attempt to implement such a scenario, " he said.

" But on the reverse side, Poroshenko there is a problem in Ukrainian society is too large request for war

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