On October 27, the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation held a meeting of the Committee of public support for the inhabitants of the South-East of Ukraine, chaired by the Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Yury Vorobyov.

On September 26, the Trilateral meeting of contact group on the conflict settlement in Donbass was hosted in Minsk. The agenda included issues related to non-fulfillment by Ukraine of the Framework Decision on disengagement of forces and means in Stanitsa Luganskaya, the aggravation of the situation on the contact line and realization of “Steinmeier formula”.

We continue to advocate the implementation of the “Steinmeier formula”. This formula was proposed and approved at the Paris summit on October 2. However, the Ukrainian side on the subgroup on political issues had been delaying the discussion throughout the year, trying to make the issue fall outside the scope of agenda and, in fact, sabotaged the work in this direction.

On October 24, the round-table, dedicated to the results of the “Normandy Four” summit in Berlin and prospects of the Minsk process, took place in the conference hall of the Russian News Agency TASS.

On October 21, a solemn event dedicated to the Day of the Judiciary and Judicial System which was attended by the Chairman of the DPR People's Council Denis Pushilin and the DPR People's Council deputy Alexander Kostenko was held in Donetsk.

On October 20, the permanent plenipotentiary representative of the DPR in the Contact group at negotiations in Minsk and the chairman of the DPR People’s Council Denis Pushilin commented on the outcome of the Normandy Four meeting, which was held in Berlin.

On October 18, the permanent plenipotentiary representative of the DPR in the Contact group at negotiations in Minsk Denis Pushilin commented upon the negotiations on the peaceful settlement of the conflict in Donbass via videoconferencing.

The hero of the Donetsk People's Republic, the commander of the battalion “Sparta” Colonel Arsen Pavlov (callsign Motorola) murdered last night in Donetsk.

On October 14, the “Team building in the context of the primaries” forum took place in Donetsk. The event was attended by the Head of the DPR Alexander Zakharchenko, the Chairman of the DPR People’s Council Denis Pushilin, the deputy chairman of Council of Ministers Dmitry Trapeznikov, the members of the DPR People’s Council.

We have to state a marked aggravation of the military situation in the South of the Republic. The Ukrainian side has resumed provocative activity against the DPR today, despite Minsk agreements and the military disengagement.