The shooting at a bus, whose passengers were peaceful civilians, the death and injury of innocent people, cannot be called anything but a criminal and outrageous provocation.

As a person immersed in the negotiation process, I can say with certainty that the place of negotiations is secondary.

On January 18, the first in 2018 meeting of the Contact Group took place in Minsk. The agenda of the meeting included issues of the exchange of prisoners, the observance of the ceasefire, the implementation of agreements on the withdrawal of prohibited weapons and the disengagement of forces and facilities.

The law on the 'reintegration' of the Donbass adopted today, on January 18, further repels the region from Ukraine. This opinion was expressed to the Donetsk News Agency by the Permanent Authorized Representative of the DPR at the talks of the Contact Group in Minsk, the Chairman of the People's Council of the DPR, Denis Pushilin.

The procedure for the adoption in the Verkhovna Rada of the so-called law on 'reintegration' eloquently demonstrated the whole essence of modern Kiev politics, which inherent hypocrisy, the desire to receive the greatest dividends and not to be responsible for anything, constant bargaining, the desire to please everybody but the ordinary people. 

According to the Stockholm Arbitration Court’s decision, “Naftogaz of Ukraine” will resume purchasing gas in Russia. Petro Poroshenko called this decision of the Stockholm Arbitration Court a historical victory, as a result of which Ukraine gained energy independence.

The possible use of the American anti-tank missile systems Javelin runs counter to the implementation of the Minsk agreements and can lead to a serious escalation of the conflict, the Permanent Representative of the DPR at the talks of the Contact Group in Minsk, the Chairman of the DPR People's Council, Denis Pushilin, told Interfax.

A story of Ukrainian migrant worker, who lost part of her arm because a laundry director did not allow rescuers to saw a washing machine, in the mechanism of which her limb was stuck, blew up the Ukrainian mass media

The Chairman of the DPR People’s Council gave comments on the situation related to the disruption of the MTS-Ukraine mobile operator’s work to the website of “Zvezda” TV channel.

The variant of the law on the 'reintegration' of the Donbass proposed by Ukrainian nationalists is unacceptable for residents of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, Chairman of the DPR People's Council, Permanent Plenipotentiary of the DPR at the talks of the Contact Group in Minsk Denis Pushilin said on the TV programme "Time will show" on the Russian First Channel.