Contact group on Ukraine to reconvene in Minsk

The contact group to resolve the situation in the east of Ukraine is to hold today a regular meeting in Minsk today. This will be the first meeting after the November 11 elections, when the interim head of the unrecognized Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, got more than 60 percent of the votes. While the Central Election Commission of the unrecognized Lugansk People's Republic declared a victory for Leonid Pasechnik. Kiev criticized the elections calling them the withdrawal from the Minsk process.