Humanitarian programme is aimed at ensuring safety of citizens and preventing environmental and technological disasters – Denis Pushilin

The permanent plenipotentiary representative of the DPR in the Contact group at negotiations in Minsk, the Chairman of DPR People’s Council Denis Pushilin commented in an interview with the press on the outcome of today's meeting of the Contact group on peaceful conflict resolution in Donbass.The envoy stressed the importance of providing access to public experts to sites of increased environmental and technological hazards and critical
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DPR and LPR representatives in Contact group insist on need for heavy equipment withdrawal from contact line

On March 1, Minsk hosted a regular meeting of the Contact group on the peaceful settlement of the conflict in Donbass. The agenda included issues related to the violation of the ceasefire, the situation around the Donetsk filtration plant and exchange of prisoners.According to a source from Minsk in the peace negotiations, negotiators from the DPR and the LPR continue to insist on the exchange of all identified persons detained by the Ukrainian
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LPR and DPR call on OSCE to contribute to ensuring public experts’ access to objects of high environmental and technological hazards and critical infrastructure sites

As a part of today's meeting of the subgroup on humanitarian affairs and the meeting of the Contact group, there was held a presentation of the humanitarian programme for the reunification of Donbass people, presented earlier by the Heads of the Donetsk People's Republic Alexander Zakharchenko and the Lugansk People's Republic Igor Plotnitsky.In addition to providing medical and educational assistance, the provision of administrative and legal
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#Official Commentary of Alexander Kostenko on DPR Head’s statement in connection with Donbass blockade by Ukrainian radicals

As the Head of our state Alexander Zakharchenko said, enterprises that are on the ground of the Donetsk People's Republic and which were built by our fathers and grandfathers, belong to the people. If the enterprise not only work for the benefit of the people, but also directly or indirectly pay for the genocide of the people, they should be brought under state control.We have long endured on our land oligarchs who paid for 'ATO.' But this has
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Denis Pushilin comments on changes in tax legislation of Republic

Accepting changes in the tax laws regarding the clarification of the taxation of non-residents, the Donetsk People’s Republic takes over full responsibility for its citizens, Chairman of the DPR People’s Council Denis Pushilin said.In a live programme "Vesti" on the channel "Russia-24" the Parliament Speaker commented on the entry into force of the Law "On Amendments to the Law of the Donetsk People's Republic "On the tax system," which was
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Denis Pushilin calls Ukraine’s attempts to sabotage decisions of Contact group “destructive and unreasonable”

The DPR People's Council Chairman, permanent plenipotentiary representative of the DPR to the negotiations of the Contact group in Minsk Denis Pushilin commented on another attempt of the Ukrainian side to sabotage the agreements reached on withdrawal of equipment from the contact line."Arrangements for the withdrawal of heavy weapons, reached at the last meeting of the Contact group on Monday, was once again ignored by Ukraine. Scheduled for
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Denis Pushilin comments on recognition of documents issued on People’s Republics’ territory by the authorities of the Russian Federation

On February 18, the DPR People's Council Chairman Denis Pushilin commented on the recognition by the Russian Federation of documents issued on the territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics."This is the long-awaited event for the citizens of the Donetsk People's Republic. The DPR Documents Recognition by the Russian Federation will greatly facilitate the lives of our citizens, relieve painful issues of movement and residence on the
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#Official Commentary of Valery Skorokhodov on probable cause of unlocking of economic subgroup’s work in Minsk

One gets the impression that the Ukrainian side in the economic subgroup at negotiations in Minsk was forcibly brought and seated at the table. No one cares now about their ambitions or whims.In my opinion, the new administration of the White House made it clear that now the Europeans have to deal with the problems of Kiev – it has played and will play a key role in the behaviour of Ukraine at the Minsk negotiations. The main support goes away
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Ukraine is making every effort to get out of the Minsk process – Denis Pushilin

The DPR People's Council Chairman, permanent plenipotentiary representative of the DPR in the Contact group at the negotiations in Minsk Denis Pushilin participated in the programme "Informally" on the TV channel "Oplot TV."During the programme Denis Pushilin noted the results that have been achieved since the signing of the Minsk agreements. "Speaking about the talks in Minsk, I do not lose optimism, despite the severity of our situation. We
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#Official Commentary of Elena Melnik on what could push Ukraine to resume work of economic subgroup in Minsk

Within six months, representatives of Kiev at the Minsk negotiations have been sabotaging dialogue on economic issues, presenting flimsy claims concerning the members of the economic subgroup from the Donetsk People's Republic.They did not care about the problem of non-payment of pensions, disaster with water due to infrastructure damaged by AFU bombardments, the threat of flooding of mines and many other problems caused by the war and blockade
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