The Head of the parliamentary faction “Donetsk Republic” and a deputy Alexander Kostenko gave his commentary on a possibility of the escalation of the situation on the line of contact and provocations by the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the World Football Championship in Russia to the Press service of the DPR People’s Council.

The internal political situation in Ukraine is becoming increasingly uncontrollable to the country's official leadership, deputy of the DPR People's Council Sergey Zavdoveyev told the press service of the People's Council.

Infringements by the Ukrainian party of the agreement on withdrawal of forces and facilities in areas of Petrovskoye (DPR) and Zolotoye (LPR) settlements jeopardize the implementation of the Framework Decision on the disengagement of forces and facilities. This was stated on June 8 in the interview to the journalists by Chairman of the People's Council, Permanent Plenipotentiary Representative of the DPR at the talks of the Contact Group in Minsk…

The Donetsk People’s Republic supports the statement of the United Nations Security Council on the need for the expeditious implementation of the Minsk agreements and settlement of the conflict in Donbass. This was reported by the Chairman of the DPR People’s Council, the Permanent Plenipotentiary Representative of the DPR in the Contact Group’s negotiations in Minsk Denis Pushilin to the Donetsk News Agency.

Chairman of the DPR People's Council, Permanent Representative of the DPR to the talks of the Contact Group in Minsk Denis Pushilin told the RT about the readiness for provocations by the Ukrainian armed forces during the FIFA World Cup 2018. According to the plenipotentiary representative, there is a possibility of an AFU offensive on the DPR territory during the sports competition.

The proposal of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov to prosecute the citizens of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics for “collaborationism” contradicts the Minsk agreements and aims to incite hatred against the inhabitants of Donbass. This was reported by the DPR People’s Council deputy Valery Skorokhodov to RIA Novosti.

The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine plans to abolish the profit tax and introduce a tax on the withdrawn capital, with mandatory cuts in budget expenditures on the General Prosecutor's Office and the Security Service. This was stated by Finance Minister Alexander Danilyuk.

The House of Representatives of the US Congress supported the allocation of $250 million to help Ukraine in the security sector within the bill on the US defence budget for 2019. This was reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine on its official page in the social media. 

The working group on security discussed today in the videoconference mode the situation around the Donetsk Filtering Station, as well as additional measures to monitor compliance with the ceasefire.

The US State Department rumbled hastily to rehabilitate the AFU, which launched a fierce attack on Gorlovka. As a result, four people were wounded, a direct hit in a multi-storey residential building was recorded, as well as several more damages! In the last two days alone, Ukrainian artillery has launched almost a thousand munitions on the DPR settlements.