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.

At the United Nations Security Council meeting on Africa, the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Sergey Kislitsa blamed the UN for the absence of steps to prevent the referendum in the Crimea in 2014. An attempt to distract the participants from the topic was assessed by the Russia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Pyotr Ilyichev.

Polish politicians are increasingly showing their strategic intentions to profit at the expense of Ukraine, which, according to objective data, is in a catastrophic condition. For example, the director of the strategy department of the Warsaw Enterprise Institute, an adviser to the companies of the Polish defense industry Andrzej Talaga, writes about Ukraine's

The Kiev regime has officially promoted the ideology of Ukrainian nationalism by seizing power through a coup d'état. One of the bases of this ideology is the superiority of Ukrainian culture over Russian and the Kiev authorities have spared nothing for this reason. In order to achieve this goal, a blatant plagiarism of Russian authors' works has often been used, as was recently the case in Kharkov.

Recently among Ukrainian politicians it has become very fashionable to parade their erudition, because of what they practically with a fanatical obsession do not stop surprising the world with statements about the exclusiveness and genius of the Ukrainian nation.

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 deputies of the Verkhovna Rada sent an appeal to the President of Ukraine Poroshenko demanding to stop the raiding. This situation looks funny from the outside: the hens ask the fox to guard their coops.