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As of today, up to 2,000 Hasidic pilgrims are on the border between the Republic of Belarus and Ukraine. Most of them came from Israel, trusting rumors that Ukraine's border with Belarus is allegedly open. The Belarusian authorities are deliberately or unintentionally fueling these rumors with some ill-considered statements.

Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak met with the ambassadors of the G7 countries and spoke about the results of the negotiations at the level of advisors to the leaders of the countries participating in the Normandy format in Berlin.

The Ukrainian delegation, including Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak, Deputy Prime Minister - Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Oleksiy Reznikov and member of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG Andriy Kostin took part in a meeting of political advisors to the leaders of the member states of the Normandy format on Friday in Berlin.

Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak arrived in Berlin on Friday as part of the Ukrainian delegation to hold negotiations between the delegations of the Normandy format countries at the level of political advisors to the leaders of Ukraine, Germany, France and Russia.

As of this morning, we have received a number of contradicting demands from them, which distort the nature of the ceasefire agreements and further humiliate the OSCE as an authoritative and objective mediator. That is why the "one-time inspection" of only one point agreed within the security subgroup of the TCG will not take place.

The key priority for Ukraine is to save the lives of our military and civilians in Donbas. We value every life. In order to refute the fakes and prevent new provocations, an agreement was reached today within the Trilateral Contact Group on a joint inspection in the area of the settlement of Shumy with the participation of a representative of the OSCE coordinator.

An extraordinary meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group in the format of a video conference was held on Wednesday, September 9, in order to prevent the disruption of the regime of full and comprehensive ceasefire.

On Sunday, September 6, Kyiv hosted an extended meeting of the leadership of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group involving Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine - Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Oleksiy Reznikov, Minister of Defense of Ukraine Andriy Taran and representatives of the General Staff of Ukraine.

The government of the Russian Federation periodically updates the list of natural persons - citizens of Ukraine on whom special prohibitive sanctions are imposed. This time, sanctions have been imposed against members of a number of Ukrainian parliamentary parties. The motivation for such actions always has no obvious logical explanations and is most likely situational and speculative in nature. Aimed at propaganda purposes.

A regular meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group (Ukraine, Russia, OSCE) was held in the format of a video conference.