DONETSK. July 2 (Interfax) - The self-proclaimed Donetsk (DPR) and Luhansk (LPR) People's Republics intend to continue their dialogue with Ukraine, DPR People's Council Speaker Andrei Purgin has said.
"The dialogue with Ukraine will continue, come what may. Without it, it is impossible to exist in our and their situation," he told reporters on Thursday.
Purgin also said he believes that Ukrainian authorities are trying to pass the administration reform off as decentralization.
"Ukraine is implementing this administrative reform in order to imitate decentralization. Instead of decentralization and federalization, they are implementing administrative reform - reshape districts and merge villages with cities," Purgin was quoted as saying by the Donetsk news agency.
He dismissed it as a 'profanation' and said that the existing administrative division in the self-proclaimed republics would be maintained.
"We will keep the administrative division the same as it was before the war," he said.