Former head of the SBU: At secret negotiations, Russia was offered to “drain” Donbass in stages
At the negotiations in Bratislava on Donbass with the participation of Ukraine, the Russian Federation, the USA, Great Britain and Germany, but without representatives of the LDPR, an agreement was allegedly reached on the deployment of a peacekeeping line on the front line, but only at the first stage - before the subsequent entry of the “blue helmets” into Donetsk and Lugansk, as required by Kyiv.
This was stated by the ex-head of the SBU Yevgeny Marchuk, who is participating in the negotiations on Donbass from Ukraine.
“The first stage is the front line and the normalization of life in the front-line zone. In transitional administrations, the senior may be a peacekeeper or by consent, but there must be representatives from both the occupied and non-occupied parts,” Marchuk said.
His words caused surprise in Donetsk.
“I’m reading Marchuk’s nonsense here that a certain international working group has agreed on the phased deployment of UN peacekeepers to Donbass. No one in our working group on Minsk knows what he’s talking about,” DPR parliament member Vladislav Berdichevsky told PolitNavigator.
Previously, Russian representatives have repeatedly stated that the introduction of peacekeepers is possible only in agreement with the parties to the conflict - Ukraine and the LDPR. At the same time, Moscow emphasized that the UN peacekeeping mission should be stationed on the front line to protect OSCE observers who monitor how the parties implement the Minsk agreements.
Ukraine, Germany and the United States, in turn, insist on introducing “blue helmets” not to the front line, but to the entire territory of the LDPR - under the cover of a foreign contingent, Kiev hopes to clear the Donbass republics of participants in the Russian resistance and push the disloyal population into Russia.
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