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The representative of the Donetsk region in the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG for the resolution of the conflict in Donbass Sergei Garmash recalled that US President Joe Biden considers Russian President Vladimir Putin a murderer.
The United States and Russia can use Ukraine and the situation surrounding the Donbas conflict to fix things between them.
This opinion was expressed on April 2 by the representative of the Donetsk region in the Ukrainian delegation to the trilateral contact group (TCG) on the resolution of the conflict in Donbass, journalist Sergei Garmash, in an interview with the television channel Nastoyaschye Vremya.
“I just call your attention: the reaction of Russia to the actions of the United States, the reaction of the United States to the actions of Russia, again on the border with Ukraine. And in Ukraine, the situation is much calmer.” […] President [Украины Владимир Зеленский] He spoke after him and casually touched on the Donbass issue, saying that our army is ready to repel any attack. In addition, the US armed forces in Europe are on alert in Ukraine. I have not heard of putting our Armed Forces on alert. I mean, the impression is that we are simply being used for some kind of geopolitical game, ”he said.
To the clarifying question of who exactly uses it, the representative of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG replied: “Russia and the United States, which, for example, are resolving relations between them.”
“This tension didn’t arise today, did it?”[Президент РФ Владимир] Putin is a murderer, “according to [президента США Джо] Biden, Putin is forced to react again to the position of the United States, he is forced to react to the position of Germany and France, which once again claimed that Russia is not a mediator, but a party to the negotiations. The G7 ambassadors declared that Russia is a party to the conflict. We recall that 47 UN member states signed a document in which they also asked Russia to acknowledge its responsibility for this conflict, calling it a party to the conflict, ”Garmash said.
In 2014, Russia occupied Crimea and 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. Officially, the Russian Federation does not recognize its invasion of Ukraine, despite the facts and evidence presented by Ukraine.
Negotiations on the resolution of the conflict in Donbass are taking place in the trilateral contact group in Minsk (Ukraine, Russia, OSCE), as well as in the Normandy format, with the participation of representatives of Ukraine, France, Germany and Russia.
The need to involve the United States in the negotiations in the Normandy format was announced by representatives of Ukraine in early 2015. The fifth president, Petro Poroshenko, said in 2017 that the negotiation process was coordinated with the United States.
In October 2016, Putin said that Russia is not opposed to bringing the United States to the Normandy format. After Zelensky in 2020 confirmed his desire to involve the United States in the negotiation process, Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said that the participation of the US side in the Donbass negotiations was “out of the question.”
According to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, the United States can play a key role in the return of Ukrainian territories.
In early 2021, despite the armistice agreements, the situation in Donbass worsened. Another exacerbation occurred on March 26: in the area of the village of Shumy, Donetsk region, illegal armed formations from Russia opened fire with mortars, grenade launchers and large-caliber machine guns. As a result of the bombing, four soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed. Two more soldiers were injured.
On March 30, at an extraordinary meeting of the Verkhovna Rada, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ruslan Khomchak, said that Russia was increasing its military presence near the border with Ukraine in the south, east and north: in the Bryansk, Voronezh regions, as well as in occupied Crimea. Khomchak emphasized that the Ukrainian army is ready to give an adequate response “both in the case of an escalation in the JFO zone, and in the case of a complication of the military-political, military-strategic situation around Ukraine.”
Peskov stated that the movement of Russian troops through the territory of the Russian Federation should not disturb other states, it does not threaten them in any way. On April 2, Peskov accused the Ukrainian army of “provocations in Donbass” and called the situation on the demarcation line “very frightening”. Commenting on this, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that in recent weeks Russia has been conducting a systemic disinformation campaign about Kiev’s alleged preparation for an escalation in Donbas. He assured that Ukraine is fighting for a peaceful settlement.
On April 2, Biden confirmed his support for Ukraine in a telephone conversation with Zelensky.
Zelenskiy said that the Ukrainian army is “capable of repelling anyone” and this strengthens Ukraine’s negotiating position in the diplomatic agreement it seeks.
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