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Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Vitold Fokin said that he had not communicated with Ukraine’s first president, Leonid Kravchuk, for 28 years, from the time of his resignation until his appointment as the first deputy head of the Ukrainian delegation in the group of trilateral contact on the resolution of the conflict in Donbas.
Former Prime Minister of Ukraine, former head of the trilateral contact group on conflict resolution in Donbass, Vitold Fokin, said in an interview with “KP in Ukraine”, which was published on November 26, he hesitated for a long time before agreeing to work at the TCG.
“The question of whether it could work with Kravchuk did not arise. I was sure it could. However, we met and discussed for a long time the possibility of implementing the Minsk agreements without detriment to the interests of Ukraine.” measures and a weak argumentation of the sequence of their implementation “, – said Fokin.
According to him, he and Kravchuk came to the conclusion that there is no alternative to the Minsk accords, they must be implemented, making a reasonable compromise, seeking the restoration of peace.
Fokin admitted that from the time of his resignation in 1992 and before starting work at TCG, he did not communicate with Kravchuk.
“There was no need or interest in this. We are different people with Leonid Makarovich. He is unique in his own way, for all occasions he has his own way of camouflage, his own ideological camouflage. He easily changes his beliefs, adapts to any circumstance” . for the sake of my own well-being, but for me it is always “better to be than to appear,” said the former prime minister.
On July 30, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed Kravchuk as head of the TCG delegation. The first president said that his main mission in this position was the end of the war in Donbas.
On August 6, Zelensky said that the TCG of the Ukrainian side will also include Fokin, Deputy Prime Minister – Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov and Chairman of the State Border Service of Ukraine Andriy Demchenko.
Fokin, 87, August 18 became the first deputy head of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG. Recommended the rest of the Ermak negotiators. In an interview “1 + 1”that came out on September 12, Fokin’s granddaughter Masha said that it was she who introduced her grandfather to Ermak..
On September 29, during a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on the organization of state power, local self-government, regional development and urban planning, Fokin said he was not sure whether Ukraine and Russia were at war. He also said that he would never be an enemy of Russia.
The committee recommended that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemn Fokin’s remarks and fire him. September 30 Zelensky Fokine fired of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG and relieved him of his duties as deputy head of delegation.