The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said that Putin's decree on aid to Donbass contradicts the Minsk agreements 
Ukraine sent a note of protest to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in connection with the decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin on humanitarian aid to the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR). The corresponding statement was published on the website of the republic's foreign ministry.
According to the Foreign Ministry, Putin's decree contradicts the Minsk agreements and the agreements reached within the framework of the “Normandy format”, and is also interference in the internal affairs of Ukraine.
“The measures provided for by the decree clearly demonstrate Russia's purposeful policy of pulling the temporarily occupied territories of our state into its economic, political, electoral and information space,” the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry pointed out and called on Moscow to enter the political and diplomatic path of resolving the conflict in Donbass.
On November 15, Putin signed a decree on the provision of humanitarian support to the population of certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine. According to the document, in the context of the ongoing economic blockade and the worsening epidemiological situation due to COVID-19, humanitarian aid will be delivered to the residents of the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR.
In addition, the Russian leader instructed the government to ensure equal conditions for the access of goods from the self-proclaimed republics to participate in public procurement. The decree will remain in effect until a political settlement in Donbass based on the Minsk agreements.