The president's envoy for settling the situation in Donetsk and Luhansk regions Iryna Heraschenko has said that the third meeting of the OSCE-Ukraine-Russia contact group may be held in Minsk.

"You know that a decision has been made to resume the work of the so-called tripartite contact group. I do not rule out that the next meeting of the contact group will not be held in eastern Ukraine. Perhaps, it will be [held in] Minsk," she told reporters on Tuesday.

"Such an option is being discussed in order to once again create the conditions needed for the productive work of this so-called contact group, in which Ukraine is represented by [former] President Leonid Kuchma," she said.

The presidential envoy, however, declined to say whether of not Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko was considering the possibility of declaring martial law in the country's Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

"At this stage, it is imperative to make sure that primarily the civilian population and servicemen support the resumption of the anti-terrorist operation because today it will help our servicemen both neutralize the terrorists, armed people, and defend the civilian population being blackmailed by these armed people," Heraschenko said.

The first meeting of the trilateral contact group was held in Kyiv on June 8.

On June 23 the Donetsk regional state administration hosted multilateral consultations attended by Kuchma, Personal Representative to the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Heidi Tagliavini, Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov, as well as Ukrainian Choice public organization leader Viktor Medvedchuk, DPR prime minister Oleksandr Borodai, South-East movement leader Oleh Tsariov and representatives from the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic.

Consultations between the contact group and representatives of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and the "Luhansk People's Republic" (LPR) also took place on June 27.