“We agreed on the Steinmeier formula at the meeting of advisers on September 2, and I can bring what I agreed to,” TASS quoted him as saying.

He noted that "the law on special status comes into force in a preliminary format at the time of the election, and finally comes into force after the decision of the OSCE / ODIHR (on the recognition of elections as fair)."

Earlier, Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky said that Ukraine is developing a map of the implementation of the Minsk agreements with specific deadlines for their implementation.