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The head of the Ukrainian delegation of the trilateral contact group, the country’s first president, Leonid Kravchuk, said that no progress was being made in the course of negotiations with Russia within the TCG.
There is no alternative plan yet to resolve the situation in Donbass, but the document is being worked on. The head of the Ukrainian delegation in the trilateral contact group, the country’s first president, Leonid Kravchuk, announced this on the air of Ukraine 24 channel on December 9.
He noted that the secretary of the Defense and National Security Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov spoke about the preparation of the NSDC decision on the situation in Donbass.
“This is, in my opinion, Plan B. But I cannot discuss it. Firstly, it is not there yet, they are working on it. And secondly, this is not a matter of the trilateral contact group. We are taking into account What is decided at the state level, at the Normandy format level, counts and we work in this context, ”said Kravchuk.
The first president added that Ukraine “does and will do everything” to make the Normandy format and the TCG work.
“Ukraine has been and continues to adhere to that concept. But we are realistic and we see that Ukraine is complying with the agreements that were adopted on December 9, 2019, and the other party is blocking. We are holding TCG meetings in videoconference format: Russia makes no move to remove various obstacles from the road, but instead creates them for us. We talk for hours about different things, but there is absolutely no progress. Russia does nothing at all to remove obstacles from our path On the contrary, it creates them for our side “- said Kravchuk.
He added that “forever” shouldn’t go on like this.
“If the working formula proposed by Russia continues, we must seek other forms of influence so that [реализовать] our main task is the real world in Donbass, “summed up the head of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG.
Danilov said that the decision on the plan to resolve the situation in eastern Ukraine by political and diplomatic means, which expires on December 9, will be taken by the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky.
SINCEThe adviser to the head of the Office of President Andrei Yermak, Mikhail Podolyak, said today about a “significant change” in the situation in Donbass over the past year. According to him, Zelensky abandoned Plan B to resolve the conflict.
“Now it is wrong to talk about plans A, B and so on. We combine elements of different strategies and continue negotiations in all the formats that they can and are already giving very concrete positive results for Ukraine,” Podolyak 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.
Zelensky is confident that the war will be completed during his tenure.
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.
On December 9, Paris hosted a summit of the leaders of the Normandy Four. Its final communiqué establishes that the parties agreed to a ceasefire, the opening of new checkpoints, the exchange of detainees according to the formula of “all for all” until December 31, 2019, the disconnection of forces and resources in three new areas in Donbass, the extension of the law for one year. “On a special procedure for local self-government in certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions” and the extension of the mandate of the OSCE special monitoring mission. The agreements were partially implemented. The next summit was expected to take place in March – April 2020, but this did not happen.
As explained by the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, the Minister of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories, Oleksiy Reznikov, Zelensky said that one year is given to implement the scenario described in the Minsk Accords.
If the conflict in Donbass is not resolved through negotiations in Minsk, Ukraine “will change its tactics,” the president said. In December 2019, Zelensky said his team would not wait another five years to resolve the military conflict in Donbas. Plan B to resolve the situation in Donbass is a “wall” that will mean that in CADLO’s territory there will no longer be Ukraine, but “something else,” he said.
In November 2020, Aleksey Arestovich, the spokesman for the Ukrainian delegation of the trilateral contact group on conflict resolution in Donbass, said “unofficially” that the key idea of Plan B is the introduction of peacekeepers into the temporarily occupied territories .
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