[ad_1]
Russia said that during an online conference on March 30, the leaders of Germany, France and the Kremlin (Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, Vladimir Putin) discussed the situation in Donbass.
This was reported on the Kremlin website. Note that earlier the Russian side spoke about the preparation of such a conversation without the participation of President Vladimir Zelensky. Later, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry criticized this step in response.
Putin, according to the report, accused Ukraine of allegedly not complying with the agreements. He also insisted on a direct dialogue with the Russian “representatives” of Donetsk and Lugansk and “the settlement of the legal aspects of the special status of Donbass.”
In addition, the Russian president said that it was the Ukrainian side that allegedly caused the escalation on the front line, although this was not the case.
“In the course of a detailed exchange of views on the situation in Ukraine, it was confirmed that there is no alternative to the 2015 Minsk Package of Measures as a basis for resolving the ‘internal conflict’ in this country,” the Kremlin said in a declaration. The press service deliberately called the war unleashed by Russia a conflict “inside” Ukraine.
During the talks, the politicians touched on other topics, notably the Russian vaccine against the Sputnik V coronavirus, the state of relations between Russia and the EU and the case of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. We also talk about Belarus, Libya, Syria and Iran.
As OBOZREVATEL wrote, the Kremlin had previously announced a complete lack of progress under the Minsk process. Russian President Dmitry Peskov’s press secretary also claims that things are generally wrong with the “Normandy format.”
