The Russian Federation consistently insists on the soonest expansion of the forces and facilities of the parties in the Luganskaya Stanitsa. This was after the meeting was told by the Russian representative in the contact group for the settlement of the situation in Ukraine Boris Gryzlov.

According to him, the Russian side also insists on the swiftest exchange of prisoners under the "all for all". Today all the directions of our work were discussed. Particular attention was paid to the humanitarian component and security issues. The position of the contact group remains unchanged: there is no alternative to Minsk agreements, "Gryzlov said..

Recall, the so-called "Steinmeier formula" provides for the procedure in which the Verkhovna Rada first adopts a law on holding elections in the occupied Donbas, and then elections are held in this territory, after which the OSCE concludes whether the elections held corresponded to European standards.

As reported URA-Inform, the main topic of today's agenda in Minsk were the results of verification of persons who committed crimes, but who can not be pardoned under the law for the sake of liberation.