Trilateral contact group may discuss shelling of Troitsky checkpoint via video link on Friday - Kuchma

17:33, 08.10.2015 1 min read

The second president of Ukraine and the country's representative in the trilateral contact group, Leonid Kuchma, has said that the members of the group have agreed to meet if the situation in Donbas deteriorates, but an isolated incident at a Ukrainian army checkpoint near the village of Troitske, Luhansk region, can be discussed remotely.

"The trilateral group made an agreement that if the deterioration of the situation is serious, we need to meet urgently to discuss this issue. But you see that there was an accident and now everything is quiet. We can discuss this issue with representatives of Donbas via a video conference – we do not rule this out, but no such meeting is planned for today," he told reporters in Kharkiv on Thursday.

Kuchma said that bringing together members of the trilateral group is difficult.

"You know how it is: to come there from Luhansk and Donetsk. It takes time," he said.