(VOVworld) – No agreement was reached at a meeting Wednesday of the Ukraine Contact Group in Minsk, Belarus.

Ukrainian soldiers man the frontline outside the eastern city of Debaltseve, Donetsk, on December 24, 2014. (Photo: AFP)

The meeting included former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov, Chairperson-in-office of the Organisation of Security and Co-operation in Europe on Ukraine Heidi Tagliavini, and representatives of the self-proclaimed People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, Denis Pusilin and Vladislad Deinego.
Alexander Zakharchenko, Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk, said there will be new rounds of talks in the future.