People’s Council MP Vladislav Berdichevsky in an interview with the Federal News Agency commented on the statement of Ukraine's Defence Minister that the complete disengagement of forces and means on the contact line in Donbass contradicts the Minsk agreements.

The Deputy Chairman of the People’s Council’s Committee on Agriculture and Land Resources and Deputy Yuri Leonov outlined the Committee’s work on a draft law on naming of geographical features.

On January 22, a mourning rally was held in Donetsk in memory of civilians who perished as a result of shelling of the Bosse microdistrict.  Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin, Chairman of the People’s Council Vladimir Bidyovka, MPs, Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Pereverzeva, representatives of ministries and departments, as well as residents of the Republic, attended the event.

A statement made by the Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine Sergey Krivonos on Kiev’s readiness to take Donbass back by force demonstrates that the peaceful settlement of the conflict is a low priority concern for Ukraine. This was stated by the Chairman of the DPR’s People’s Council Vladimir Bidyovka in his commentary to RIA Novosti.

MP of the DPR People’s Council Vladislav Berdichevsky, in a commentary for the Federal News Agency, battered a statement of the Special Representative of OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Trilateral Contact Group on the settlement of the situation in the East of Ukraine, Martin Sajdik, about the possibility of freezing the conflict in Donbass according to the Transnistrian scenario.

The Chairman of the DPR’s People’s Council Vladimir Bidyovka said in an interview to RIA Novosti that the residents of Donbass would love to see the region to become a full-fledged subject of the Russian Federation, but this was hampered by a difficult international situation.

On January 18, the Chairman of the DPR’s People’s Council Vladimir Bidyovka and the Deputy Chairman of the LPR’s People’s Council Oleg Koval attended a Great Circle meeting of the Cossack military society “Black Sea Cossack Host”, which was held in the Crimean Academic Russian Drama Theatre named after M. Gorky.

On January 18, in the city of Simferopol, the Republic of Crimea, a solemn meeting and laying flowers at the monument to Bogdan Khmelnitsky on the occasion of the 366th anniversary of the Pereyaslav Council took place.

A direct dialogue between Donbass representatives and the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky would accelerate the settlement of the conflict in the region. This was stated by the Chairman of the DPR’s People’s Council Vladimir Bidyovka in an interview to RIA Novosti.

If Ukraine really did want peace, it would simply stick to the terms of the Minsk agreements. This was stated in an interview with RIA Novosti by DPR People’s Council Chairman Vladimir Bidyovka, commenting on the words of Daria Olifer, the press secretary of Ukraine's representative in the Trilateral Contact Group Leonid Kuchma, about the procedure for holding elections. In particular, the fact that elections in Donbass can be held only after the…