Kuleba told why his conversation with Lavrov did not take place / GORDON



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When Ukraine started the negotiations of the foreign ministers regarding the situation in Donbass, at first the reaction of the Russian Foreign Ministry was lively, but then Moscow announced that Minister Sergei Lavrov had left for a business trip . This was said by the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmitry Kuleba.

The telephone conversation between the foreign ministers of Ukraine and Russia regarding the violation of the silence regime in Donbass has not yet taken place, Moscow announced that Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had gone on a business trip. Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said this on September 7 on the air of the program “Freedom of expression” on the ICTV channel.

“When the conversation began yesterday, the reaction of the Russian Foreign Ministry was at first quite lively. But this morning we received a message that Minister Lavrov has left urgently on a business trip and it is not known when this conversation will take place. As it turned out, he went to Syria. I’m ready, I’m waiting for conversation “, – said Kuleba.

According to him, the order to speak to Lavrov was given to him by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after the assassination of a Ukrainian military in the Lugansk region.

“What to talk about? It’s very simple. The first question is: how does the Russian Federation explain what happened? Secondly, is it staying true to the ceasefire? And thirdly, discussing the preparations for the meeting. of Foreign Ministers of the Normandy format, which should take place immediately after the meeting. [глав государств], in light of yesterday’s bombing, “explained the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

In his view, Russia raises the stakes ahead of negotiations in the Normandy bombing format.

“We have two wars with Russia: one is hot, armed, the other is diplomatic. I have a strong feeling that the Russian” armed war party “took a step yesterday and today. It is not without reason that this happens on the eve of the electoral campaign in Ukraine, we have political forces, to which any bad news from the east scores points. And this happens on the eve of the meeting of advisers and ministers, this is an increase in rates, this is a change in the environment, the issues that we must discuss, because again we are forced to back down on the security issue, “Kuleba said.

On 6 September, as a result of the shelling by illegal armed formations of the Russian Federation of positions of units of the Joint Forces near Prychepilovka, Lugansk region, a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine received injuries incompatible with life . This is the first loss of the Armed Forces since the start of the ceasefire.

Another military man was injured as a result of a targeted bombing in the Krasnogorivka area of ​​the Donetsk region, two – in the explosion of an unknown device (one of them died the next day). Likewise, on September 6, the death of two soldiers was known in a minefield during the evacuation of the place of the fire. near the Verkhnetoretskiy Donetsk region.

On the same day, an extraordinary meeting of the TCG was held, in which the Ukrainian delegation described the incident as “separate provocations”. The Presidency demanded that Russia “intervene in the situation and influence the provocative behavior” of the militants. Kuleba initiated an urgent telephone conversation on the night of September 6 with Lavrov.



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