The Kremlin has once again threatened Ukraine with the loss of statehood because of the occupied Donbass. A similar statement was made by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.
He warned Ukraine against a military solution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
“The situation in Donbass should not be resolved by military means, otherwise there will be a question of Ukrainian statehood, Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly spoken about this,” the Kremlin speaker said.
According to him, Kiev and Washington understand this.
As previously reported, Russia in words advocating a political way of resolving the armed conflict in Donbass, in practice, continues to be its main mover. The Russian Federation does not comply with the main provisions of the protocol signed on September 5, 2014 in Minsk. In particular, the Minsk Protocol provides for an immediate bilateral cessation of the use of weapons, permanent monitoring on the Ukrainian-Russian state border and verification by the OSCE with the creation of a security zone in the border regions of Ukraine and the Russian Federation, the withdrawal of illegal armed formations, military equipment, as well as militants and mercenaries. from the territory of Ukraine. Instead, Russia on a permanent basis supports the occupation authorities of Donbass with weapons, ammunition, military equipment and personnel. Russia is also categorically opposed to monitoring a section of the state border uncontrolled by Ukraine, through which columns of military equipment regularly enter the occupied Donbass and through which Ukrainian coal, products of Ukrainian metallurgical plants are exported from CADLO, and so on.
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