The prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, declared that the DNR claims the entire territory of the Donetsk region and will disagree on "special status" for the third of it which it currently controls. As the adviser of the president of Ukraine, Yury Lutsenko, declared the day before, the Minsk protocol doesn't provide special status for the Donetsk and Lugansk areas as a whole, and it will be received only by the third of the territory of Donbass controlled by the militants. The protocol following the results of a meeting of the tripartite contact group (Russia - Ukraine - OSCE) on a settlement of the Ukrainian crisis also presupposes a truce and acceptance in Ukraine of a law on the special status of the Donetsk and Lugansk areas and carrying out early elections. The head of the self-proclaimed Lugansk republic specified that the consent of the LNR and the Donetsk republic to adoption of this law doesn't mean their rejection of independence.

The prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk national republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, declared that the DNR claims the entire territory of the Donetsk region and will disagree on "special status" for the third of it which it currently controls.



As the adviser of the president of Ukraine, Yury Lutsenko, declared the day before, the Minsk protocol doesn't provide special status for the Donetsk and Lugansk areas as a whole, and it will be received only by the third of the territory of Donbass controlled by the militants.



The protocol following the results of a meeting of the tripartite contact group (Russia - Ukraine - OSCE) on a settlement of the Ukrainian crisis also presupposes a truce and acceptance in Ukraine of a law on the special status of the Donetsk and Lugansk areas and carrying out early elections. The head of the self-proclaimed Lugansk republic specified that the consent of the LNR and the Donetsk republic to adoption of this law doesn't mean their rejection of independence.