On October 4, a regular meeting of the Contact Group on the peaceful settlement of the conflict in Donbass was held in Minsk. The agenda included issues related to the expiry of the Special Status Act, the preparation of prisoner exchanges, the observance of the ceasefire and the implementation of the Agreement on the separation of forces and means.

A bill submitted by Petro Poroshenko on the resumption of Ukraine's sovereignty over the territories of the Donbass Republics not only ignores the points of the peace agreements, but directly contradicts them.

Prolongation of Ukraine's law on the special status of the Donbass would be the best solution at this time, said the Chairman of the People's Council, the Permanent Plenipotentiary Representative of the DPR to the Contact Group at the talks in Minsk Denis Pushilin in the "Senate" programme on the "Russia-24" channel.

The draft law on “reintegration” may be submitted to the West as one of the premises for implementation by Ukraine of the Minsk agreements. It was stated by the Chairman of the DPR People’s Council, the permanent plenipotentiary representative of the DPR at Contact Group’s negotiations in Minsk Denis Pushilin in live “Vesti” programme on “Russia-24” TV channel.

On September 28, the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation held a round table on the topic "The Last Frontier: what will happen in connection with the completion of the Law of Ukraine on the special status of the Donbass on October 18". The event took place as part of the work of the Committee for Public Support of the Southeast of Ukraine.

The Chairman of the DPR People's Council, the Permanent Representative of the DPR at the talks of the Contact Group in Minsk, Denis Pushilin, commented on the state building of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics in the TV programme "60 Minutes" on the Rossiya 1 channel.

The words of the Ukrainian President concerning the victims among the civilian population, language and religious harassment and the violations of the declared armistice are the height of cynicism.

On September 20, a regular meeting of the Contact Group on the peaceful settlement of the conflict in Donbass was held in Minsk. The agenda included the implementation of a ceasefire regime, the exchange of prisoners and the implementation of the Agreement on the separation of forces and means at the third pilot area near Stanitsa Luganskaya.

Ukraine and the United States are interested only in a forceful solution to the conflict in Donbass. It was stated by the Chairman of the DPR People’s Council, the permanent plenipotentiary representative of the DPR in the Contact group at negotiations in Minsk Denis Pushilin in a live television broadcast of “Time Will Tell” TV programme on the Russian First channel.

Yesterday, Ukraine and the United States refused to discuss Russia's proposed resolution on the introduction of the UN contingent to the Donbass; today, the Ukrainian president is pleased with the approval of the US Senate to allocate $500 million to Ukraine for defense. Can anything more eloquently speak about the intentions of the Ukrainian party?