Lutsenko: Only a third territory of Donbass will receive a special status

"Special zone", which will be created in Ukraine and will receive a special status, will take only a third of Donbass. According to Interfax, the adviser to the President of Ukraine Yuri Lutsenko stated on the ICTV channel on the ICTV channel. The decision on the special status of Ukraine, a third of the regions of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, not controlled by Kyiv, was recorded in the Minsk Protocol.

"The Minsk Protocol means that Ukraine is holistic. Even the Lugandon areas (LPR and the DPR) temporarily uncontrolled to us are still part of Ukraine. The border becomes ours, and we must isolate this special zone, take control of it, including engineering structures, and offer them not only weapons - the standard of living," Lutsenko said.

According to him, now there is a "demarcation of positions that occupy Ukrainian troops and which today they cannot occupy."

The protocol published on Sunday on Sunday involves Ukraine the adoption of a law on a special status of territories in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions and the holding of early elections.

In turn, the head of the "Lugansk People's Republic" Igor Plotnitsky on Saturday stated that the consent of the representatives of the LPR and the DPR with the adoption of the law on special status does not mean abandoning independence. He explained that for the sake of the world, "people's republics" should compromise. “We understand that for the restoration of peace and security, economic and social ties, we can and should compromise, and where it is necessary to get closer to the Ukrainian society as much as possible,” the head of the LPR noted. Plotnitsky noted that the law on a special status will become "confirmation of the course of Kyiv for a peaceful settlement of the conflict."

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko at the NATO summit in Newport on September 4-5 presented a peace plan consisting of 14 points. Poroshenko proposed a decentralization of the authorities by electing executive committees (now the heads of regional administrations are appointed by the President), to coordinate the candidates of governors with “representatives of Donbass” and create a 10-kilometer buffer zone on the Ukrainian-Russian border.