Chairman of the DPR People's Council, Permanent Representative of the DPR to the talks of the Contact Group in Minsk Denis Pushilin in the programme "Time will show" on the Russian First Channel commented on the Wall Street Journal's information about the plans of the US government to introduce a UN peacekeeping mission to the Donbass.

The Head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory Vladimir Vyatrovich proposed to make changes to the public holidays calendar. March 8 may become a day of struggle for women's rights without the status of holiday. Even more significant changes may affect the celebration of Victory Day – the holiday is planned to be moved from the 9th of May to the 8th, and its name will have a very different meaning.

Despite the fact that the heating season has begun not in all the cities of Ukraine, for example in the city of Slavutich, where there was a dilemma: either to pay wages to public sector workers or to start the heating season, and despite student protests in Dnepropetrovsk, where the heating season has not yet started,

Residents of Mariupol on the Day of Ukrainian writing and language, which was celebrated on November 9 in Ukraine, expressed their attitude to the language mainly in Russian. At this time, Poroshenko was glorifying the 'thousand-year' history of the country, during which the Ukrainian language was being allegedly tempered.

The number of peacekeepers proposed by the United States of America for deployment in Donbass exceeds reasonable necessity and such numbers may prevent the OSCE observers from carrying out their duties. It was reported by the permanent plenipotentiary representative of the DPR in the Contact group at negotiations in Minsk Denis Pushilin to RIA Novosti.

On November 9, at the training ground, in the village of Nizhnaya Krynka in Makeyevka, fighters of the special purpose unit of the Transport Ministry "Vityaz" passed the standards for the right to wear a blue beret. The event dedicated to the 2nd anniversary of the formation of the unit was visited by the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic Alexander Zakharchenko, deputies of the DPR People's Council,

Those in power in Ukraine do not hide their intentions towards the forcible occupation of Donbass. The founder of the National Guard of Ukraine “Azov” (an organization banned in the DPR – Ed.), the Verkhovna Rada deputy Andrey Biletsky stated that airstrikes would be needed to occupy Donbass.

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine became interested in the corruption scheme for the purchase of armoured cars by the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine from the plant "Kuznaya at Rybalskoye", more than 80% of shares of which is owned by the "Prime Essential Capital" Fund of the President of Ukraine.

Chairman of the DPR People's Council, Permanent Representative of the DPR to the talks of the Contact Group in Minsk Denis Pushilin commented on the reaction of the Ukrainian media to the words of the LPR Foreign Minister Vladislav Deynego about the possible return of the Donbass to Ukraine.

On November 8, a commemorative event, which was dedicated to Law Enforcement Officers Day, took place in the assembly hall of the Donetsk Academy of the DPR Ministry of Internal Affairs. The event was attended by the Chairman of the DPR People’s Council Denis Pushilin, the DPR People’s Council’s deputy Aleksey Zhigulin, the First Deputy Minister of Education and Science Mikhail Kushakov,