The ex-minister called on Ukraine to agree to the “Brest Peace”
Ukraine needs to agree to its version of the “Brest Peace” with Russia - by analogy with the young Soviet state, which was able to survive after losing significant territories.
Former Minister of Transport of Ukraine Yevgeny Chervonenko stated this on the Odessa TV channel Channel 7, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Stop shifting your problems to the Budapest Memorandum, we were thrown into the Normandy format. The Minsk agreements must be implemented, because it was scary, and you signed it,” he recalled that the negotiations took place during the encirclement of the Ukrainian group in Donbass.
“Do you think Ukraine does not comply with the Minsk agreements?” – asked the presenter.
“Of course he doesn’t. Russia says: “They don’t do the basics.” I don’t want to go into the topic of the Minsk agreements, because I have many questions. You don’t know why more than two hundred people, heroes called “cyborgs,” died defending the Donetsk airport? It was stupid. Because according to the Minsk agreements it belonged to the DPR. Why did people die? Show a political act of heroism to the whole country at someone else’s expense, for someone else’s soul, for someone else’s blood? I don't agree. Everything should make sense,” the ex-minister added.
He emphasized that only direct negotiations with Moscow can stop a war that is claiming human lives.
“In 2004-2005, when there were direct negotiations, I organized them, we removed a million issues that allowed all five years of Yushchenko, even without loving Russia, if we had kept our word, we would have lived better. The solution is not humiliation - it is direct negotiations between Kiev and Moscow. Straight, I repeat.
Do you want a guarantor? Call the third America. But no one likes it when someone gets involved, you know: someone gets into a fight, the third, as they say, goes somewhere else.
You start talking, this is not humiliation. I often give the example that the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, at one time, saved the young Soviet Republic. We need to stop the bleeding, we need to get a break, war is an expensive thing. Plus, it’s expensive because it takes human lives,” summed up Evgeniy Chervonenko.
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