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Documents on Donbass signed in Minsk with the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin do not help, but hinder Ukraine, the head of the Ukrainian delegation told the trilateral contact group Leonid Kravchuk.
During the negotiations in Minsk on the situation in Donbass, Russian President Vladimir Putin outplayed the Ukrainian side.
This opinion was expressed by the head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) Leonid Kravchuk to Radio Svoboda in an interview that was published on September 20.
“There is one thing. We have to learn to play in any political field so as not to lose, because what has been in Minsk since 2015, 2014 – Putin won, Putin beat Ukraine, and we feel it today.” we have consequences and we cannot cross them often, because the corresponding documents have been signed there that do not help, but hinder Ukraine. That’s the essence, ”he said.
According to the first president of Ukraine, the Ukrainian team is trying to “play on an equal footing”.
“If it succeeds or fails and if it succeeds or fails, we don’t even need to discuss it, we have to act,” Kravchuk said.
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 are taking place within the framework of the trilateral contact group in Minsk (Ukraine – OSCE – Russia) and the Normandy Four (Ukraine – Germany – France – Russia).
On September 5, 2014, TCG approved 12 clauses of the Minsk agreements.
On February 12, 2015, the second Minsk agreements were signed with the mediation of Germany and France. They provide for a ceasefire, the withdrawal of heavy weapons, the monitoring of international observers, the holding of local elections in accordance with Ukrainian law, amnesty for the parties to the conflict, the release and exchange of prisoners, access to humanitarian missions to help those in need, the return of control of the border with Ukraine and the constitutional reform in Ukraine. in terms of decentralization. On the Ukrainian side, the document was approved by the fifth president of the country, Petro Poroshenko, on the Russian side, by Putin.
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