Poroshenko’s “peace initiatives” were put forward only to be rejected - Ukrainian political scientist
Moscow – Kyiv, June 23 (Navigator, Mikhail Stamm) – The “peace initiatives” of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko are, in principle, unrealizable and are a ploy. The leaders of the Donbass militias and the experts interviewed by RBC agree on this.
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Petro Poroshenko offered the militia of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics disarmament in exchange for an amnesty and the opportunity to travel to Russia, RBC recalls. The leaders of the DPR and LPR rejected the proposal of the Ukrainian president, considering the unilateral ceasefire on the part of Kyiv a trick. The fighting continued all weekend. The peace plan is unlikely to be implemented, experts say.
Although the first paragraph of the document provides for “security guarantees for all participants in the negotiations,” it does not specify with whom and when such negotiations should be held. Poroshenko has already refused to talk to “terrorists,” as they are called in Kyiv, calling only “legally elected representatives of local government” and civil society organizations for dialogue. The plan says there will be early elections for local authorities, but does not specify a time frame.
The leaders of the self-proclaimed republics refused the Ukrainian proposal. “Due to the fact that the command of the punitive troops did not attempt to enter into any negotiations with the command of the DPR militia, the truce declared unilaterally by Poroshenko will not be observed by the militia,” said the commander of the Donetsk militia, Igor Strelkov. The “people's governor” of the Donetsk region, Pavel Gubarev, also announced a refusal to recognize the truce; another leader of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Denis Pushilin, called Poroshenko's proposals “senseless,” and the leader of the Lugansk rebels, Valery Bolotov, “ridiculous.”
By refusing to negotiate with them, Poroshenko did not leave them any room for maneuver, Sergei Zhiltsov, head of the CIS Center at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, tells RBC. He considers the truce itself “designed for an external audience”: in Kyiv they understand the futility of peace proposals in the form in which they were made.
“15 points were put forward in order to be rejected,” argues Ukrainian political scientist Denis Denisov. As an example, he cites the clause on disarmament, which the militias, in his opinion, cannot agree to under the current conditions, as well as the clause on joint patrolling of the territory, which cannot be organized without preliminary negotiations with the military leaders of the militias.
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