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Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said he had never seen the envelope on which “plan B” was written.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba Dec. 24 on the air of the channel “Ukraine 24” commented words Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister for the Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories Aleksey Reznikov that the Ukrainian side is working according to plan B on the question of a peaceful solution to the conflict in Donbass.
On December 22, in an interview with the Public, Reznikov said that the Ukrainian side on the issue of a peaceful solution to the conflict in the east of the country is already working according to plan B for Donbass. According to him, the plan is to work on the reintegration of the occupied territories even before Russia withdraws its troops.
“I have never seen an envelope that says” plan B. “There is a decision of the Defense and National Security Council, which contains five scenarios for the development of events in the occupied territories of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Now the events unfold according to the first scenario, “Kuleba said.
According to Kuleba, the colleagues are talking about plan B due to the impossibility of being in the current process indefinitely.
“The potential of the Minsk process and the Normandy format has not yet been exhausted. And the titanic work our representative is doing in the leadership advisory group [глава Офиса президента] Andriy Ermak, negotiating: there is still something to fight for and something to push on. And our team at the TCG – there, at the TCG, the atmosphere is regular, the situation is destructive and it seems to walk in a circle, but all the professionals understand that there is no other way out and, as the classic wrote, “hammer this stone, “he added …
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke about Plan B for Donbass in 2019. He said that if the Donbass territory cannot be liberated in the near future, the residents of the occupied territories will have the opportunity to wait for this in the controlled territory. by Kiev.
In May, Yermak said Ukraine intends to do everything in its power to end the war in Donbas before the end of the year.
“The intensification of the work of the contact group is proof of this. We have and elaborated a plan B – what are we doing, if it will be like that and what are we doing if it will be like this,” he said, without specifying what the essence of the contingency plan is.
In 2014, immediately after the annexation of Crimea, Russia launched an armed aggression in eastern Ukraine. The fighting is between the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the one hand, and the Russian army and the Russian-backed militants who control parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, on the other. The Russian Federation does not officially recognize its invasion of Ukraine, despite the facts and evidence presented by Ukraine.
Representatives of Ukraine, Russia, the United States, Germany and France have been negotiating the deployment of peacekeepers in Donbas since September 2017. Kiev insists that peacekeepers must be present throughout the Donbass, including in the uncontrolled section of the border between Ukraine and Russia. Moscow is committed to deploying a UN mission only on the contact line.
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