Donetsk militia sees no major progress after foreign ministers' talks
DONETSK. April 14 (Interfax) - The authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) see no breakthrough in the yesterday's meeting of the foreign ministers of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine (the Normandy format) but describe it as an attempt to shift the situation in the Donbas armed conflict zone into political territory, DPR people's council speaker Andrei Purgin said.
"It is an interim document [resulting from the ministers' talks in Berlin], and everything is in the process, but how this is going to happen and who will represent Ukraine in working groups or will it be delaying things again is not known. Effectively, they went in a circle and returned to the same thing. While I see is as no breakthrough, this is a call to shift the situation from military into political territory," Purgin told reporters on Tuesday.