DPR PM Zakharchenko to take part in meeting of three-party contact group in Minsk
MINSK. Sept 5 (Interfax) - The self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic will be represented by its Prime Minister Alexander Zakharchenko in the meeting of the three-party contact group on the situation in Ukraine scheduled to be held in Minsk on Friday, Miroslav Rudenko, a member of the Donetsk People's Republic's Supreme Council, told Interfax.
The meeting participants may approve a decision on a peace settlement based on a ceasefire and exchange of POWs, he said.
"The key items of the final decision that may be discussed in the Minsk negotiations and may be approved by the participants in these negotiations will be the development of a POW exchange mechanism in the format 'everyone for everyone," an increase in OSCE monitoring of the military situation, removal by Kyiv of military units from populated areas on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic and, eventually, the introduction of a ceasefire or truce," Rudenko said.
In the meantime, the Ukrainian military have still not stopped fighting on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, he said.
"Khartsyzsk was attacked with a Tochka-U missile yesterday. The missile did not fully explode. A man who was near the place where it exploded was hurt. In the populated area of Shchastya, a National Guard battalion mined an electric power sub-station and promises to blow it up if they have to retreat. Several districts of Donetsk and Makiyivka came under fire. It doesn't look that the Ukrainian military have lowered the degree of aggression at this point," Rudenko said.