The conditions also include restored control by Ukraine over the sections of border now controlled by Russian-backed forces.
The Ukrainian side to the Trilateral Contact Group on Tuesday announced the conditions for the implementation of the political bloc of the Minsk agreements on Donbas settlement, says Darka Olifer, press secretary for Ukraine’s envoy, ex-president Leonid Kuchma.
She noted that during the Minsk meeting of the TCG’s socio-economic subgroup, the Ukrainian side once again raised the issue of the need to have the occupied areas of Donbas stop using the Russian ruble, return seized Ukrainian state-owned and private property, and restore tax payments to the Ukrainian state budget in strict accordance with Ukrainian legislation.
According to Olifer’s post on Facebook, the Ukrainian side emphasized that the implementation of the political bloc of issues that are part of the Minsk Agreements is possible only if the following conditions have been met: the dissolution of the ‘LPR/DPR’ quasigroups and a complete ceasefire, effective monitoring by the OSCE SMM throughout Ukraine, withdrawal from Ukraine of the armed forces, foreign troops, and military equipment, pullback of forces and assets along the entire line of contact, operation of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine, Ukraine political parties, media and foreign observers, as well as the establishment of control over the Ukrainian-Russian border section now beyond Ukraine’s control, and the implementation of other measures stipulated by Ukrainian and international legislation and the Minsk agreements.
(c) Unian
This sounds fair to me, but guess who is whining like crazy? Yes, the country that is not involved in this war.
And the border is under full control from Russia, not by Russian-backed forces
Donbas is under full control of Russia, but Ukraine are losing friends to pressure Putin. They would sooner do business with him and throw Ukraine under the bus.
Ideological separatist and ex-militant Yevgeniy Tinianskiy (“Karaul”) reported on the death of the Ukrainian serviceman, who was held captive by the “DNR”. He wrote this in a social network. “It was reported that the Ukrainian prisoner of war hanged himself in solitary confinement in the Ministry of State Security’s pre-trial detention center yesterday afternoon. One of those who mistakenly went to our checkpoint in May and was captured. According to my information, he was in the exchange lists”, – Tinianskiy wrote. He claims that this was suicide in solitary confinement, but does not exclude that the prisoner could be pressed “in order to knock money out of him or his relatives”. Tinianskiy does not name the deceased.
A lasting cease-fire is possible only after the liquidation of the little Kremlin monkey.
Why are they going through with this charade, everyone knows the score. Muscovy will never back down one inch regarding Donbas. Zelensky needs to forget about his Mr Popular tag, and tell Putin to GFY, remove you scum from Donbas, or nothing changes.
Zelensky WOULD BE Mr. popular if he did that as you say.