The power of Russian Federation critically apprehended the law of Verkhovna Rada in the first reading ‘On the peculiarities of the state policy to ensure the state sovereignty of Ukraine over the temporarily occupied territories in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions’.

The press-secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov has claimed that in general the law contradicts to Minsk agreements.

‘There are the points, in which RF is called an aggressor. Also, there is no any reminding of Minsk agreements. From the legal point of view, of course, such a formulation can neither be de jure nor de facto acceptable, it is unacceptable, but from a legal point of view, of course, this contradicts both the letter and the spirit of the Minsk accords’, Peskov claimed.

At the same time the law about extension the special Donbass status Peskiov called very important, explaining: ‘It’s very important law draft, because the expiry of preliminary law on special status made all concerned’.