The move confused the Ukrainian delegation, she said.
Negotiations will be followed by a meeting of the trilateral contact group.
Militants keep international observers out of sensitive areas by planting false landmine signs.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's administration has denied a statement by Russian President Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov who claims that the two presidents continue to meet.
The Tripartite Contact Group (TCG) for Donbas settlement on Wednesday announced another ceasefire effective from midnight December 23, 2017, as reported by Darka Olifer, a press secretary for Ukraine’s ex-president Leonid Kuchma, who is now the country’s representative in the TCG.
A meeting of the Tripartite Contact Group on Donbas settlement is scheduled to convene in the Belarusian capital of Minsk November 29, according to Radio Liberty.
Extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of Ukraine Volodymyr Vasylenko says Ukraine has agreed with Western partners that the Minsk agreements cannot be implemented the way they are interpreted by the Russian side, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
The Ukrainian side in Minsk has handed over to Russian representatives the lists of hostages at the negotiations of the Tripartite Contact Group for the Donbas settlement within the framework of the hostage swap proposal on a "309 for 87" formula, according to an UNIAN correspondent.
Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine and in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) in Minsk for the settlement of the situation in Donbas Martin Sajdik says that the TCG's political subgroup discussed measures to ensure the special status of the so-called certain areas in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, according to the Belarusian telegraph agency BELTA.
Kremlin aide Vladislav Surkov said that fresh ideas of resolving the Ukraine crisis had emerged during his first meeting with U.S. special representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker on Monday, Reuters reported citing Interfax news agency.
United States Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker will travel to Minsk, Belarus, where he will meet with a representative of the Russian government to discuss Russian-Ukrainian relations on August 21, according to the State Department’s website.
Both the anniversary of the MH17 crash and the jubilee of the formal end of the conflict in Transnistria saw certain follow-ups this week . Ukraine and Georgia intend to boost cooperation, having declared strategic partnership. Alexander Lukashenko's visit to Kyiv did not go without incidents. Zakharchenko’s desire to establish "Malorossiya" looks both intoxicated chatter and part of the Kremlin's plan. Poland is looking into analogies between the current protests in Warsaw and the Ukrainian Maidan.
The European Union says that plans by the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic ("DPR") to create the so-called "Malorossiya" (literally "Little Russia") instead of Ukraine are against the objective of the Minsk peace agreement on Donbas.
Freshly appointed U.S. Special Envoy on Ukraine settlement Kurt Volker wasted no time and took on a visit to Ukraine as part of the delegation led by State Secretary Rex Tillerson, to familiarize himself with the situation on the ground. Obviously the challenges he will be facing differ from those which his predecessor Victoria Nuland had to deal with.
Kurt Volker, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO, has been appointed to be the new U.S. special envoy to negotiate over the fate of war-racked Ukraine, two State Department officials confirmed to RFE/RL.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says that more active involvement of the United States in the Normandy format, which includes Ukraine, Germany, France, and Russia, has been discussed in Washington, but he sees no need for change of it.