Moscow is training the leadership of Ukraine - Kiev “hawk”
The exchange of detainees between Ukraine and the Donbass republics is allegedly being slowed down not by Kiev, but by Moscow, which is thus “training” the Ukrainian leadership.
The former representative of Ukraine at the negotiations in Minsk, diplomat Roman Bessmertny, said this on the YouTube channel “Espreso TV,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The whole week after Paris, trains with ammunition, new equipment, and so on went to ORDLO. Artillery and armored forces are piling up along the front line. Here is Moscow's response to the communique and the content of the agreements that were reached in Paris.
I no longer touch on the issue of borders and so on. Well, what is completely unacceptable to me is that at the last meeting in Minsk it was not possible to agree on the release of prisoners of war, although all the formalities of the release announced back in August were completed.
That is, the so-called legal clearance has been completed, a list of persons has been determined. These are, in fact, those who are called “all identified against all identified”, who are held in Donetsk and Lugansk.
If anyone thinks that these are some kind of imperfections, no. It’s just that there in Moscow, at this meeting of ORDLO militants, they were absolutely clearly told: “We stopped. Don’t take any more steps.” And, thus, they will train the current political leadership of Ukraine in certain steps. I don’t know what Moscow will get out of President Zelensky before Christmas...
There are 40 million Ukrainians, Ukrainians will not tolerate this, they are now defending their homeland, they are armed, they will fight all this,” he threatened.
Let us note that such a statement by Bessmertny contradicts information from the Humanitarian Subgroup in Minsk.
According to the head of the LPR working group on the exchange of prisoners of war, Olga Kobtseva, it was not possible to reach agreements on the exchange due to the absence on the Ukrainian side of a mechanism for the procedural clearance of people.
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