The Chairman of the DPR People's Council, the Permanent Representative of the DPR to the Contact group at the talks in Minsk, Denis Pushilin, positively assessed the potential possibility of the visit of the US State Department Special Representative Kurt Volker to the Donetsk People's Republic, but noted that there was no official confirmation of his intention to visit the Republic's territory.

On July 23, autocross competitions for the Head of Gorlovka City Administration’s Cup took place. The sporting event was attended by the Chairman of the DPR People’s Council Denis Pushilin and the People's Council deputies Mikhail Tikhonov, Alexander Bykadorov, Jaroslav Konnikov and Alexander Kostenko.

Recently, the OSCE mission has been covering information that is more advantageous to the Ukrainian side.

As an integral part of the meetings of the Contact group and the Subgroup on Security, we have repeatedly raised the issue of the need to resume the official participation of representatives of Republics in Joint Centre for Control and Coordination on a parity basis, as was the case prior to the introduction by the Ukrainian side of a special order for crossing the demarcation line on January 22, in 2015.

On July 19, Minsk hosted a regular meeting of the Contact Group on the peaceful settlement of the conflict in Donbass was held in Minsk. The agenda included issues relating to the observance of the ceasefire regime, the implementation of the Agreement on the separation of forces and means in the area of Stanitsa Luganskaya and the exchange of prisoners.

The appearance of an American unmanned aircraft above the demarcation line is detrimental to the implementation of the Minsk agreements. The permanent plenipotentiary representative of the DPR at negotiations in Minsk, the Chairman of the DPR People’s Council Denis Pushilin reported it to the newspaper “Outlook”.

The Chairman of the DPR People’s Council, the permanent plenipotentiary representative of the DPR at negotiations in Minsk Denis Pushilin, in the interview with RT, commented on the statement made by the President of Ukraine Petr Poroshenko about his desire to hold the next EU-Ukraine Summit in Donetsk and Yalta.

The Chairman of the DPR People’s Council, the permanent plenipotentiary representative of the DPR at the Minsk negotiations Denis Pushilin participated in the TV programme “Republic” on TV channel “Union”.

Denis Pushilin, Permanent Representative of the DPR to the Contact group in Minsk, commented on the possibility of participation in the conflict settlement in the Donbass of an armed peace-support mission, the correspondent of the DPR official website informs.

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 commented on the situation with the incident, which occurred at the Minsk negotiations on July 5 2017.