Meeting of Trilateral Contact Group begins in Minsk

A meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) on the peaceful settlement of the situation in eastern Ukraine has begun in Minsk.

Darka Olifer, the spokesperson for Ukraine's representative in the group, former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma, wrote this on her Facebook page.

"A meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group has begun in Minsk," she wrote.

As Ukrinform reported, the previous TCG meeting was held in Minsk on May 30. Following the meeting, a member of the TCG’s humanitarian subgroup, First Deputy Verkhovna Rada Chairperson Iryna Herashchenko informed that Russia's representatives in the TCG refused to hold talks on the release of Ukrainians held in Russian prisons and Russians in Ukrainian prisons.

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