Contact Group Meeting on Ukraine Not to Take Place Sunday: LPR Negotiator

Vladislav Deinego, LPR negotiator, stated that meeting of the Contact Group on Ukraine will not take place on Sunday, December, 21.

LUHANSK, December 21 (Sputnik) – A meeting of the Contact Group on Ukraine will not take place on Sunday, but the representatives of Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics (DPR and LPR) are ready to come to Minsk at any time, an LPR negotiator told RIA Novosti on Sunday.

"Today there will be no [Contact Group meeting]. I am here, in Luhansk, and cannot come to Minsk today. [DPR negotiator Denis] Pushilin and I are ready to leave [for Minsk] at any moment," Vladislav Deinego said.

On December 17, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced that the next round of the Contact Group talks on Ukraine reconciliation would take place on December 21.

The September 5 Contact Group meeting in Minsk led to a ceasefire agreement between the Kiev forces and the independence supporters of Ukraine's eastern regions.

Despite the agreed upon ceasefire, the opposing sides have repeatedly accused each other of the truce violation. On December 9, a "silence regime" was announced in the country's South-East as an attempt to resume the ceasefire.

The latest round of talks on Ukraine was expected to be held on December 12, but it was postponed due to additional preparations required by the negotiating parties.