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In the LC we hope that Kiev will "find the strength" to observe a truce

The official representative of the people's militia self-proclaimed Luhansk people's Republic Yakov Osadchiy expressed the hope that Kiev will "find the strength" to observe a truce in the Donbass.

On Monday in Donbass came into effect extra measures to ensure ceasefire. The commander of the joint forces of Ukraine Vladimir Kravchenko said that the militia violated the truce in the region on the first day of entry into force doper. Representation of the self-proclaimed Donetsk people's Republic in the Joint center for control and coordination of ceasefire and the people's militia LC named these statements provocation. The President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky said that in the Donbass, despite the declared truce, are "single shots", the Ukrainian military will respond to the firing.

In DND called Kuchma constructive negotiator in the Donbass

The ex-President of Ukraine, the representative of Kiev in the contact group Leonid Kuchma is one of the few Ukrainian negotiators, who constructively approached the meetings on Donbass, his receivers have to make the right conclusions from its work on conflict resolution, said the envoy of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national Republic in the contact group, foreign Minister DND Natalia Nikonorova.

Kuchma on Tuesday stopped work in the contact group on conflict settlement in the Donbass. The second President of Ukraine this year will be 82 years old.

DNR accused Kiev in the organization of infocompany of destabilization in the Donbass

Kiev launched an information campaign to destabilize the situation on the contact line in the Donbass, told reporters the self-proclaimed representative of the Donetsk people's Republic in the Joint center for control and coordination of ceasefire (SCCC).

The Department explained that in the summary of operations of the joint forces of Ukraine refers to two violations of the cease-fire supposedly from the DNR. One of these facts were recorded on the night of 27 July in the area of the settlement Water, the second at lunchtime, near the village of Lenin on Gorlovka direction. The DNR fact both denied and said that in the area of Gorlovka at the Kiev time the violations were carried out repair work on the pipeline section damaged by the fire. At that time in the place were mirrored patrols of the OSCE SMM and task force DNR to SCCC, which recorded the full observance of the regime of silence. The restoration of the water pipeline passed in a regular mode.

Office Zelensky commented on the agreement on ceasefire in the Donbass

The observance of the cease-fire is a basic prerequisite for the implementation of the Minsk agreements and opens the way for implementation of other provisions of this agreement, said the press service of the office of the President of Ukraine.

A videoconference of the contact group on the Donbas held on Wednesday. The parties agreed to a ceasefire on the line of demarcation in the Donbass from July 27.

Security forces shelled a residential area of the village in the Donbass, said in the LC

Ukrainian security forces on Wednesday opened fire from weapons BMP-2 on a residential area controlled by the self-proclaimed Luhansk people's Republic, the village of Znamenka in the Donbass, told reporters the official representative of the national police LNR Yakov Osadchiy.

The meeting of the contact group is held on Wednesday in the video. The press service of the foreign Ministry of the breakaway Donetsk national Republic declared that the contact group on conflict settlement in the Donbass agreed to additional measures to monitor the ceasefire, which come into effect from July 27.

The contact group had agreed on measures to monitor the truce in the Donbass

The contact group on conflict settlement in the Donbass agreed to additional measures to monitor the ceasefire, said on Wednesday the press service of the foreign Ministry of the breakaway Donetsk people's Republic.

The meeting of the contact group is held on Wednesday in the video.

Expert: Zelensky negotiating with terrorists is easier than with the DNI and LC

The President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky was easier to negotiate with hostage takers in luck than with representatives of the self-proclaimed DND and LNR, said Russian expert, member of the Council for interethnic relations under the RF President Bogdan Bezpalko.

Zelensky previously complied with the men who seized hostages in a bus in Lutsk, and called on all in Facebook to watch the film "Earthlings" on the problem of animal cruelty. After the man was detained, the President had deleted the post in Facebook. While Kiev for more than five years conducting a military operation in the Donbass against the LC and the DNI, which declared independence after a coup in Ukraine in February 2014. Authorities of Ukraine called the militia terrorists. In direct negotiations with Donbass, Kiev is not.

For the year of the truce in LNR killed three people, was declared in Luhansk

Three civilians were killed and 40 injured in the self-proclaimed Luhansk people's Republic as a result of actions of the Ukrainian security forces during the year of the indefinite ceasefire declared in the Donbass, said the representative LNR at the political subgroup of the contact group Rodion Miroshnik.

July 21, 2019 in the Donbass acts consistent contact group's indefinite ceasefire.

Ukrainian security forces shelled the outskirts of Donetsk, told in DND

Ukrainian security forces on Sunday shelled the outskirts of Donetsk, was injured residential building, told reporters the representative of the militia DND.

"Gunmen opened fire on residential areas of the village of mine "Trudovskaya" (suburbs of Donetsk - ed.) from heavy machine guns and small arms. As a result of shelling recorded damage to houses," - said the representative office.

The Federation Council did not rule out that Kiev is preparing a "zeroing" of the Minsk agreements

The statement by the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister about the "worthlessness" of the Minsk agreement suggests that in Kiev want to "zero out" arrangement, to accuse Russia and the Republic of Donbass unwillingness of the world, said RIA Novosti member of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Oleg Morozov.

On Friday Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, Minister for reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories Alexey Reznikov said that the Minsk agreements are worthless from the international legal point of view, however, the Belarusian capital is to be used as a platform for the conflict settlement in the Donbass.

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