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Ukraine’s delegation to the trilateral contact group to resolve the situation in Donbas issued a statement expressing concern about the state of Russian diplomacy.
Russia is blackmailing Germany and France, who are also participating in the Normandy format talks. This was announced on December 3 by the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) on the resolution of the situation in Donbass.
“The pressure on Ukraine’s top politico-military leaders, which the Russian leaders tried to carry out a year after the Paris accords, failed. From maneuvering attempts in response to Ukraine’s firm and internationally recognized steps to implement the entire set of agreements in the Normandy format, the Russian leaders went on to blackmailing the international community and, above all, France and the FRG, trying to discredit their role as active and consistent participants in the Normandy format ”, the statement says.
The comment of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG appeared in relation to the December 2 attempt through the UN Security Council to legitimize the “DPR” and “LPR” militants.
The “event” organized by the representatives of the Russian Federation, which tries to use the UN Security Council to legitimize the representatives of the banned terrorist organizations “LPR” and “DPR” in Ukraine, turned out to be an event that causes great concern about the state of Russian diplomacy, “believe Ukrainian officials.
The Ukrainians at the TCG said that at the meeting, “representatives of the Russian puppet organizations and the Ukrainian political strategist Mikhail Pogrebinsky discussed among themselves,” and the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vasily Nebenzya “tried to play the role of moderator of the discussion “.
“The Russian Federation is trying to replace the process of solving the international armed conflict in Donbass (with its participation) in the Normandy format with a kind of” discussion between healthy forces in Ukraine and representatives of the republics of the DPR and the RPD “… The result … may be the unilateral recognition of the so-called Russian” LPR “and” DPR “(terrorist organizations banned in Ukraine) as” independent republics “or the threat of such recognition”, – explained the representatives of Ukraine in 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.
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. Representatives of militants from the DPR and LPR are present at the talks in Minsk.
On December 9, 2019, the first in three years and the last summit of the leaders of the Normandy Four took place in Paris. Their agreements were partially fulfilled, in particular, the exchange of detainees took place on two occasions.
The head of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG, the country’s first president, Leonid Kravchuk, said on November 5, 2020 that Kiev wants a new meeting of leaders of the Normandy format countries. took place before the end of this year… He said leaders should discuss the conditions for holding local elections in ORDLO.
