DPR and LPR decided on the election date

The authorities of the self -proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk "People’s Republics" decided on the date of the local elections. According to Interfax, Denis Pushilin reported this at the Minsk negotiations. According to him, the approximate date is February 21.

"During this period, Ukraine must fulfill the Minsk agreements as upward. This is an approximate date that was heard by the" Norman format. "The exact date will become known from the results of the work of the political subgroup," Pushilin said.

P> The decision on the transfer was made after studying the recommendations of France President Francois Olland and German Chancellor Angels Merkel following the results of the Norman Four summit in Paris, consultations with representatives of the OSCE and Russia and the orders of the Heads of the Republics of Alexander Zakharchenko and Igor Plotnitsky.

On October 2, after the end of the summit in Paris, Hollande and Merkel at a press conference said that the elections in the Donbass should be held according to Ukrainian laws . Representatives of Donetsk and Lugansk must agree on elections with the Ukrainian side. The elections assigned to the separatists and November 1 should be canceled. After the Verkhovna Rada adopted by the relevant law, voting in the Donbass should pass no later than 80 days later.

On September 22, representatives of the DPR and LPR have already reported that they were ready to postpone the elections until February 21. On the same day, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that Ukraine is ready to discuss the features of organizing and conducting elections in certain territories of Donbass. According to him, it is necessary to ensure the participation of the territory of residents who have left those who have left them, who have left those controlled by the separatists, who have more than a million people.

"Everything must be done so that as a result of these elections we did not have Russian troops in our territory, the border was blocked and Ukrainian sovereignty over the Ukrainian Donbass was restored," Poroshenko said.