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According to the spokesman of the Ukrainian delegation in the trilateral contact group on the Donbass peace agreement, Oleksiy Arestovich, a backup plan to end the war in Donbass and the plan of the fifth president of Ukraine are being discussed behind the scenes, Petro Poroshenko, “is no different”.
Oleksiy Arestovich, spokesman for the Ukrainian delegation of the trilateral contact group on the Donbas peace agreement, said in an interview with TSN that the key idea of Ukraine’s Plan B for the situation in the east of the country is the introduction of forces of peace in the temporarily occupied territories.
“I am speaking unofficially about Plan B, as a private person. It is being discussed on the sidelines. And the key word is peacekeepers. Of the plan [пятого президента Украины Петра] Poroshenko is no different. There is only such a legend on the sidelines that in 2016 they almost agreed with the peacekeepers, but someone from the Ukrainian delegation resisted and the plan to bring in peacekeepers was thwarted. Now we have found a way to really provide peacekeepers. An increase in the OSCE SMM is a powerful element of control, “he said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke about Plan B for Donbass in 2019. He stated that if the Donbass territory cannot be liberated in the near future, the residents of the occupied territories will have the opportunity to expect this in the territory controlled by Kiev.
In May, the head of the President’s Office, Andriy Yermak, said that Ukraine intends to do everything in its power to end the war in Donbass before the end of the year.
“The intensification of the work of the contact group is proof of this. We have and elaborated a plan B – what are we doing, if it will be like that, and what are we doing if it will be like this,” he said, without specifying the essence of the contingency plan .
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.
Representatives from Ukraine, Russia, the United States, Germany and France have been negotiating the deployment of peacekeepers in Donbas since September 2017. Kiev insists that peacekeepers must be present throughout the Donbass, including in the uncontrolled section of the border between Ukraine and Russia. Moscow agrees to deploy a UN mission only on the contact line.
In July 2020, Oleksiy Reznikov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, said that the issue of the deployment of OSCE peacekeepers in Donbas was being studied.
