The deputy leader of a breakaway east Ukrainian region said he would take part in talks with representatives of Moscow and Kyiv on Monday but did not expect a breakthrough, Russia's Itar-Tass news agency reported. Andrei Purgin, deputy prime minister of the rebels' self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, told Tass the meeting of the so-called Contact Group in the Belarussian capital Minsk would be "only a first step in negotiations".
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Andrei Purgin, deputy prime minister of the rebels' self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic to take part in talks with representatives of Moscow and Kyiv on Monday, Sept. 1.
