On September 19, a delegation of the Donetsk People's Republic, headed by DPR Head Denis Pushilin, took part in an expanded meeting with officials of the Republic of South Ossetia. This was reported by the press service of the Head of the Donetsk People's Republic.

Ukrainian delegation’s refusal to sign the Steinmeier formula jeopardizes a meeting in the Normandy format. This was reported by Deputy of the DPR’s People’s Council Oleg Onopko to the Donetsk News Agency.

Deputy of the DPR People’s Council Vladislav Berdichevsky commented for RIA Novosti Vadim Pristayko’s statement that one of Kiev’s steps to resolve the conflict in Donbass would be to deploy a UN peacekeeping mission in the region if it wasn't resolved on the basis of the Minsk agreements.

On September 18, an official delegation of the Donetsk People’s Republic headed by the Head of the Republic Denis Pushilin carried out a working visit to the capital of the Republic of South Osetia – Alania Vladikavkaz. The delegation included the Chairman of the DPR’s People’s Council Vladimir Bidyovka, deputies of the People’s Council Valery Skorokhodov and Sergey Prokopenko.

The “Normandy Four” will require President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky to fulfil his earlier commitments. This was stated in a commentary for the Donetsk News Agency of deputy of the People’s DPR Council Alexander Kamyshov.

The statement of Ukraine's Foreign Affairs Minister Vadim Pristayko on Kiev developing its own algorithm for ending the war in Donbass – the “Zelensky formula” – was commented in an interview with the Donetsk News Agency by Valery Skorokhodov, deputy of the DPR People’s Council, parliamentary leader of the Donetsk Republic faction.

On September 16, an extended meeting of the People’s Council Committee on Budget, Finance and Economic Policy with the Committee on Agriculture and Land Resources on improving tax legislation concerning issues of personal peasant farming, namely, amendments to the laws of the DPR “On tax system” and “On peasant agriculture” was held.

The latest statements by Kiev politicians destroyed the hopes of the Ukrainians and clearly showed the incompetence of the new leadership and its hypocrisy. The deputy of the DPR People’s Council, Vladislav Rusanov, commented on the words of Ukraine's representative at the Minsk talks Leonid Kuchma and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Vadim Pristayko.

Statements of Ukrainian officials can be regarded as confirmation of the fact that the official Kiev does not intend to seek ways to resolve the conflict. This was stated in his commentary by the deputy of the DPR People’s Council, Miroslav Rudenko.

Deputy of the DPR’s People’s Council Elena Shishkina stressed in her commentary that Ukrainian politicians had been making statements about impossibility of implementing the Minsk agreements with increasing frequency.