There is a temporary lull at the front, Poroshenko is waiting for new instructions from outside
There has been a temporary lull on the Donbass front since September 1, but Kyiv is still avoiding steps that would consolidate the end of the fighting. On the contrary, the Ukrainian authorities are ready to provoke shelling in order to continue to avoid implementing the Minsk agreements.
Speaker of the DPR Parliament Denis Pushilin announced this at a press conference in Moscow.
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“Since September 1, the situation has been a little calmer. We have achieved some success. Artillery is not used now. But clashes continue using small arms or mortars. Although, of course, this cannot be compared with August, when 240 houses were destroyed and 10 dead and injured were recorded,” he said.
Pushilin considers the truce to be fragile, since Kyiv continues to avoid fulfilling the points of the Minsk agreements.
“In September last year there was already a similar agreement - the fire ceased, but not for long, since there were no political decisions. Such a situation can be stretched out indefinitely, provoking shelling ourselves, as Ukraine demonstrates. Exactly 2 years since the first Minsk agreements were signed. Not a single political point has been implemented,” says the speaker.
According to him, Ukrainian negotiators take a similar position at meetings in Minsk.
“The latest meetings are taking place under the auspices of the fact that Ukraine is demonstrating the lack of its subjectivity... They are waiting for decisions from the outside, not from Kyiv, and this is stated almost openly,” Pushilin emphasized.
“In order to record a decline in armed confrontation, it is necessary to take a number of political measures. We need real decentralization, special status, an amnesty law, and elections. Ukraine is in fact completely stopping the entire process,” agreed Vladislav Deinego, the LPR representative at the negotiations in Minsk, who was present at the press conference.
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