Meeting of contact group to be held in Minsk today

A regular meeting of the contact group to resolve the situation in eastern Ukraine will be held in Minsk today. The discussion of the prisoners exchange between the conflicting parties in Donbass will be continued. Kiev and the self-proclaimed DPR began the withdrawal of troops in Petrovskoe area. The separation of forces on the contact line with Donbass is a condition for the Norman Four summit (Ukraine, Germany, France and Russia), where the parties will discuss further steps to resolve the conflict in the region.