Photo: © RIA Novosti. Andrey Alexandrov A meeting of the trilateral contact group on settling the situation in Eastern Ukraine will be held on Wednesday in Minsk. This will be the first meeting of the contact group after negotiations leaders “Norman Quartet”, which took place on 19 October in Berlin. The Ukrainian authorities in April 2014 began a military operation against the breakaway LC and the DNI, which declared independence after a coup in Ukraine in February 2014. According to the latest UN victims of the conflict began more than 9.6 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, including during meetings in Minsk the contact group, which from September 2014 adopted three documents regulating the steps to de-escalate the conflict. However, after the armistice agreements between the parties to the conflict continue shooting. Minsk without an alternative During the meeting in Berlin, the parties recognized