"It would be useful to hold a Skype conference first, and then determine the date [of the Minsk reconciliation talks]," Denis Pushilin, a DPR negotiator at the reconciliation talks, said at a briefing.
"I have no information about the date [of the future talks], neither does the envoy of Luhansk," he said.
Back in September, a Contact Group meeting on the Ukrainian crisis settlement led to a ceasefire agreement between Kiev forces and the independence supporters of Ukraine's eastern regions. However, the warring sides have since accused each other of violating the truce.
On Monday, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said that from the time the ceasefire agreement came into effect in September until December 12, 1,357 people were registered dead.
