Leonid Kuchma resigns as Ukraine's representative in Contact Group

28 сентября 2018

Leonid Kuchma has resigned as Ukraine's representative in the Contact Group for the settlement of the situation in the Donbass.

The reasons are unknown. Leonid Kuchma expressed the hope that his successors would work better than him. At the same time, Kuchma added that a replacement has not yet been found. The second president of Ukraine represented Kiev at meetings of the contact group in Minsk from 2014. During this time, several documents were adopted that regulate the steps to de-escalate the conflict in the east of Ukraine.