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Minsk – The leaders of the self-proclaimed Donetsk (DPR) and Luhansk (LPR) People's Republics, Oleksandr Zakharchenko and Ihor Plotnitsky, have refused to sign a document drafted at a meeting of the Russian, German, French and Ukrainian leaders in the Belarusian capital Minsk, a source in Minsk familiar with the situation told Interfax.


“As far as I know, Zakharchenko and Plotnitsky have not signed this document,” he said.

According to earlier reports, Russian presidential aide Vladyslav Surkov brought this document to a meeting of the trilateral Contact Group for Ukraine in Minsk.