Separatists intend to maintain control over the border

The self -proclaimed "Lugansk People's Republic" does not intend to give Kyiv control over the section of the border with Russia occupied by it. This was stated by the "Chapter" of the LPR Igor Plotnitsky, RIA Novosti reports .

"I have already stated that all attempts to turn the Minsk protocol against us will not pass. We signed this protocol as an agreement on peaceful coexistence. It will not be possible to isolate and strangle us. We will not give our borders with fraternal Russia under hostile control. And we are ready for economic competition with Ukraine. Soon the whole world will see that without labor Donbass, Ukraine is fattened to mass poor Degradation, ”the agency quotes Plotnitsky.

Meanwhile, the “First Deputy Prime Minister” of the DPR Andrei Purgin told Interfax that the self-proclaimed “republics” advocate their independence within the administrative borders of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. “We are hard at the positions of self -determination in the administrative borders of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions,” he emphasized.

Earlier, the adviser to the President of Ukraine Yuri Lutsenko said that the "special zone", which will be created in Ukraine and will receive a special status, will take only a third of Donbass . He also emphasized that the Ukrainian side will control the border with Russia throughout the entire length.

"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.

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.