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In Ukraine, they asked the country’s first prime minister, the deputy head of the Ukrainian delegation in the Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) Vitold Fokin, to withdraw from the negotiations on Donbass due to his latest statements. This proposal was made by the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy Andriy Yermak, on his Facebook page.
“My personal position is that Mr. Fokin should leave the TCG,” Ermak wrote, urging critics of Fokin to pay attention not to the statements, but to the decisions made regarding the Donbass settlement.
On September 22, Vitold Fokin threatened to withdraw from negotiations to resolve the situation in Donbass. He explained that he would have to leave the TCG if he did not receive support from the authorities. “If no one hears my individual proposals in a month, then I will think about it,” Fokin said.
Fokin, 87, agreed to join the TCG in August. On July 30, the Ukrainian delegation was led by the country’s first president, Leonid Kravchuk, 86.
In early September, Fokin ended up at the Myrotvorets base for saying that the parties to the Donbass conflict must reach mutual concessions. The former prime minister was called a provocateur who deliberately participates in “anti-Ukrainian propaganda activities”.
The conflict in Donbass has been going on for more than six years. In April 2014, the Ukrainian authorities launched a military operation against the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics, which proclaimed the independence of Kiev after a coup in the country. The 2015 Minsk agreements provide for a constitutional reform coordinated with representatives of Donbass in Ukraine, local elections and give the region a special status.
