Ihor Plotnitskiy / ghall.com.ua

"I think that the elections will be held according to the law, which will be agreed in the course of compulsory direct negotiations between representatives of the LPR and DPR and Kyiv," Plotnytskiy said.

Read alsoKremlin and FSB discussing Plotnitsky's dismissal for theftThe fact that these negotiations are taking place and "are giving encouraging results" is the undoubted merit of Russian diplomacy, as well as that of Germany and France, he added.

As UNIAN reported earlier, in October, the leaders of the DPR and LPR agreed to reschedule "local elections" for 2016.

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