In an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Germany and France are afraid to call Russia a participant in the Donbas conflict.
“At the last meeting of the advisors to the leaders of the Normandy Four countries, where Mr. Dmitry Kozak, who represents Russia, asked our European partners whether Russia was a participant in the conflict, representatives of Germany and France did not directly respond that Russia is a participant. They again used such “cautious” diplomacy, with which Ukraine does not agree, because Russia is a participant in the conflict,” said Zelensky.
“Everyone is afraid to even recognize Russia as a participant in the conflict,” the Ukrainian President lamented.
Zelensky believes that after eighth year of war such diplomacy is unacceptable.
He stressed that he appreciated the efforts of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, but “expected more from her.”
“We are grateful for what we have, but I know that Germany can do more. Because what they do for us, they do for themselves. I don’t know why they don’t understand it,” Zelensky said.
In the last few months, Zelensky has repeatedly stated that the “Normandy format” talks are not enough for a peaceful settlement in the Donbas. He proposed creating a new negotiating platform which would include not only the Donbas, but also Crimea and Nord Stream 2.
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[…] Zelensky: Germany and France are afraid to recognize Russia as participant in Donbas conflict […]
France and Germany not only fail to recognise Russia as a participant, they are themselves participants; on Russia’s side.
And this is the main obstacle with the Minsk agreements. Putler wants to change the document and the appeasers are letting him get away with it. Typical for Putin to go against what he signed and for the spaghetti spines to contort themselves politically.
Putler wants a federal system with his nazis running Donbas.
The only way to achieve peace is to bankrupt the ‘gas station masquerading as a country’, crush its economy and break up the RF, which is an empire, not a country.
If not, putler will continue until he’s dead and someone equally vile or even worse will take over.
Come across an old article from the Guardian in 2014. Nothing has changed one bit, the warnings were there, and are still there, but the EU still denies they exist.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/28/-sp-ukraine-russia-europe-andrei-sannikov
Great article. As you say, nothing has changed. Or rather I should say they got worse. Obama was replaced by a useful idiot, who has been replaced by a doddery old geezer in his dotage who is controlled by fucking Marxists. Meanwhile in Europe,
Putler has bought more influence and recruited more shills.
Yeah he just added another useful idiot to his entourage of scumbags.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/06/02/austrian-ex-foreign-minister-who-danced-with-putin-gets-rosneft-board-seat-a74082
An obscenity.
His tentacles are deep in Austria, a place that should recognize fascism.
Germanystan and frogland have been unconditional cowards right from the start. They should never have been allowed to be engaged in any talks that determine Ukraine’s future. Ukraine can only lose with the involvement of such caitiff scum buckets.