In the view of the former president of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk, the Minsk process “needs to be thoroughly modified, enlarged and changed in terms of membership”. Also, Mr. Kravchuk believes that DNI and LNR should be excluded from it. It seems that the representatives of the Ukrainian authorities and its proclaimers seriously believe that the same methods can be used in international politics as in Ukraine

On August 23, in Minsk, a regular meeting of the Contact group on the peaceful settlement of the conflict in the Donbass took place. The agenda included issues related to compliance with the "silence regime", the implementation of the agreement on the disengagement of forces and facilities, as well as the exchange of prisoners.

The Ukrainian media reported that the state was introducing a fee for planned childbirths. The Ministry of Health, fearing negativity in the run-up to Independence Day, refuted such interpretation of planned ‘reforms’. While those, who made the statement on paid childbirth, based on planned innovation projects.

After 2014, raiding in Ukraine started resembling the ordinary piracy judging by the methods and scale. If earlier the assets of enterprises were the objects of unlawful seizures, in recent years armed gangs have been attacking farm fields and taking away the crops grown there.

Founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange on his page on Twitter noticed a certain similarity in the photographs taken in the US (Charlottesville) and in Ukraine during torchlight processions. "The new face of America is eerily familiar," Assange noted.

The Ukrainian authorities intend to put another gain in a jar of achievements after “Maidan”. It is about a rank of the worst cities to live in, where metropolitan Kiev jumped to the top ten of those.

On August 15, during his visit to the capital of the DPR, Russian public and political figure Nikolay Starikov handed over the money collected by caring Russians to the widows of deceased militiamen and servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Republic.

On August 15, a meeting of “Donetsk Republic” public movement’s activists with the Russian public and political figure Nikolai Starikov was held in Donetsk.

An article with rather unusual headline, given the current situation in Ukraine, was published in the Zhitomir socio-political newspaper called “Country Life”. “Eurointegration of movement to dictatorship?” is the title of the article, which describes the infringement of freedom of speech and “the building of authoritarian despotism, totalitarianism and the dictatorship of one oligarch”.

On August 15, in the assembly hall of the Zuyevskaya thermal power station, a solemn ceremony of presenting the membership cards of the public movement "Donetsk Republic" to the station workers took place.