Replacing the hysterical Gerashchenko benefited the negotiation process
Donetsk notes an improvement in the dialogue with the Ukrainian side on the issue of exchange of detainees. Natalya Nikonorova, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPR, told Kommersant about this, linking this trend with the change at the negotiations in Minsk of the Ukrainian representative in the humanitarian subgroup from Vice-Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Irina Gerashchenko to ex-Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Valeria Lutkovskaya. “Under Gerashchenko there were only hysterical attacks...