Zelensky: The main thing in Donbass is unemployment

Ukraine’s step-by-step peace plan makes it possible to hold elections in Donbass next spring, the president said.

Holding elections in Donbass is realistic, but first it is necessary to liberate the occupied territories and create safe conditions. This was announced on Friday, November 6, by the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during a conversation with representatives of the media as part of a working trip to Donbass, his press service reported.

“I think elections are needed, but this is not yet an end in itself. The most important thing is the unemployment of Donbass, after which there may be elections. If everyone wants to end the war, it will definitely end, and then there is such an opportunity. “said the president.

Zelensky recalled that it is impossible to hold democratic, civilized and transparent elections without safe conditions.

“Without a normal security situation, observers will not come there, not all parties will be represented … So what kind of elections can we talk about then?

According to the head of state, the step-by-step peace plan, which Ukraine proposed for consideration at the meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group, allows “to do all this to hold elections there in the spring.”

“But this is not the main question,” Zelensky added.

Earlier this week, the head of the Ukrainian delegation to the TCG, Leonid Kravchuk, said that Kiev had developed a Joint Steps Plan, which foresaw the complete end of the armed conflict in Donbass.

In response, the spokesman for the President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Peskov, announced the rejection of Ukraine’s plan for Donbass. According to him, the Russian authorities do not intend to stop issuing Russian passports to the residents of the separatist enclaves of the LPNR.

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