MOSCOW - Andrei Purgin, the first deputy prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) expects that, based on the outcomes of negotiations on Ukraine in Milan, the contact group on a peace process in eastern Ukraine will gather in Minsk once again.
‘It is my opinion that such a hope certainly exists. Perhaps such a contact group meeting would help clarify positions on the peace process and formulate Russia’s concrete mediating steps in the region,’ Purgin told Interfax.
‘The situation has reached a breaking point, and the scales may be tipped either way,’ he said.
‘We are currently at a bifurcation point when we could slide either toward full-blown military actions or finally, which would certainly be better, toward withdrawing heavy weapons and artillery and continuing a peace dialogue,’ he said.
