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Aleksey Arestovich, an adviser to the Ukrainian delegation in the trilateral contact group to resolve the situation in Donbass, said that Russia is forcing information that Ukraine is supposedly preparing for an offensive in Donbass.
Since 2014, Russia has been using counterfeits in Donbas that Ukraine is supposedly preparing for an offensive. Alexey Arestovich, advisor to the Ukrainian delegation in the trilateral contact group to resolve the situation in Donbass, said this in an interview with the Dom TV channel, which was published on March 15.
According to him, this is an element of media and information pressure, even on the population.
“I do not see the prospect of solving the problem by military means, neither on our side, nor on the Russian side. There will be a political and diplomatic path. And we adhere to it. It may be more or less difficult (soft negotiation or harsh sanctions), but as for the military options, of course they always remain “in the portfolio” of possible solutions, “Arestovich said.
He said Ukraine aims to resolve the conflict through political and diplomatic means, mainly for security reasons.
“So that our civilians on both sides of the front do not have projectiles falling on their heads, so that there is no war in large urban agglomerations, with the prospect of hundreds and thousands of civilian casualties. We are not going to kill our citizens, we are not Russians. We will not bomb Donbass, as they did with Chechnya, demolishing everything to zero, “Arestovich said.
At the same time, he stressed that if a military solution is imposed on Ukraine, “we will respond in such a way that it will not seem small.”
In 2014, Russia occupied Crimea and launched an armed aggression in eastern Ukraine. The fighting is between the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the one hand, and the Russian military, and the Russian-backed militants who control parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, on the other. Officially, the Russian Federation does not recognize its invasion of Ukraine, despite the facts and evidence presented by Ukraine.
On July 22, 2020, the trilateral contact group agreed to a full and complete ceasefire in Donbas starting at midnight on July 27. The Ukrainian side regularly reports cases of violation of the ceasefire by militants.
In early 2021, the situation in Donbass worsened. The Joint Forces Operations Headquarters has repeatedly reported that the enemy is firing snipers. On February 4, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said that “there is no longer any peace process in Donbass.” “There are pairs of snipers, mortars, bombings. The war is on,” he said.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, on February 11, during a visit to the Donetsk region, said that the escalating situation in Donbass associated with Russia’s attempts to pressure Ukraine in the talks in the trilateral contact group on the resolution of the conflict.
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