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The head of the Ukrainian delegation in the trilateral contact group to resolve the situation in Donbass, the first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, believes that the resolution of the conflict should not start with political issues, first, security problems should be resolved.
The fifth president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, after signing the Minsk Accords, created difficulties in resolving the conflict in the east of the country. This was stated in an interview with “Facts”, which was published on December 14. head of the Ukrainian delegation to the trilateral contact group to resolve the situation in Donbass, the first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk.
“I strongly criticize those who signed the Minsk agreements, which cannot be fulfilled. They were not signed. [президент Украины Владимир] Zelensky and not Kravchuk. These documents are now the main obstacle. We clearly say, for example, that you cannot start with political issues, first you have to solve security problems: remove all foreign mercenaries and weapons from there, dissolve illegal armed groups and take control of the border. Only then will the conditions for holding elections be created. Otherwise, no observer will go there, “Kravchuk said.
According to him, Poroshenko and the European Solidarity parliamentary faction should admit their mistakes.
“But no, they observe how something does not go well for us. However, one of the main reasons is that they themselves made many mistakes before. Although I fully understand that they signed documents in very difficult conditions,” said the owner. Delegation of Ukraine to the TCG.
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.
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.
February 12, 2015 in Minsk the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany Petro Poroshenko, Vladimir Putin, François Hollande and Angela Merkel during the 17-hour talks agreed on two documents on the resolution of the conflict in Donbass: a statement on the implementation of the Minsk agreements and a set of measures for the implementation of the Minsk agreements. They anticipated the cessation of hostilities in the Donbass, the withdrawal of illegal armed groups from the region, the creation of conditions for holding elections to local authorities, etc. So far, the Minsk agreements have not been implemented.
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