Contact group meeting begins in Minsk

Contact group meeting for settling the armed conflict in Ukraine has begun in Minsk.

Censor.NET informs citing TASS.

Taking part in it are the former President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, OSCE representative Heidi Tagliavini, the Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov, and the leaders of the so-called Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics Alexander Zakharchenko and Vladislav Deinego.

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