Russia said that during an online conference on March 30, the leaders of Germany, France, and the Kremlin – Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, Vladimir Putin – discussed the situation in Donbass.
This is reported on website The Kremlin. Note that earlier the Russian side spoke about preparing such a conversation without the participation of President Vladimir Zelensky. Then in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, in response criticized such a step.
Putin, according to the report, accused Ukraine of allegedly failing to comply with the agreements. He also insisted on a direct dialogue with the Russian “representatives” of Donetsk and Lugansk and “the settlement of the legal aspects of the special status of Donbass.”
In addition, the Russian president said that it was the Ukrainian side that allegedly provoked the escalation on the front line, although this was not the case.
“In the course of a detailed exchange of views on the situation in Ukraine, it was confirmed that there is no alternative to the 2015 Minsk Package of Measures as the basis for resolving the” internal conflict “in this country,” the Kremlin said in a statement. The press service deliberately called the war unleashed by Russia a conflict “inside” Ukraine.
During the talks, politicians touched upon other topics, in particular, the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, the state of affairs in relations between Russia and the EU, and the case of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. We also discussed Belarus, Libya, Syria and Iran.
As he wrote OBOZREVATEL, the Kremlin has previously announced a complete lack of progress in the framework of the Minsk process. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov also claims that things are generally bad with the “Normandy format”.
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