The Contact Group will discuss local elections in Donbas at its meeting in the Belarusian capital on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said.

"At the meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group, which will be held in Minsk tomorrow (…) we are for the elections in Donetsk and Luhansk to be very well prepared and all preliminary conditions regarding the coverage by the Ukrainian media, the Ukrainian election commission, the removal of armed people because elections are not done under the barrels of machineguns," Poroshenko told a press conference held jointly with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Lviv after the opening of the international Ukraine-2015 man-made disaster response exercise on Monday.