The official representative of the LPR announced the impossibility of negotiations with Ukraine

Kyiv diplomats of the highest level have actually admitted their complete incompetence.

The special representative of the LPR at the negotiations in Minsk, Rodion Miroshnik, stated this on the TV channel “Russia 1”, opposing the Ukrainian experts, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports.

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“There are two coincidences: there are conditions for considering the IMF loan, a memorandum, and there are simultaneous statements by Kuleba and Ermak. Can you answer me why you have red lines here - for example, you won’t talk to us and seek some kind of settlement, but you don’t have red lines there? There you are ready to hand over land, you are ready to hand over your schools, fire doctors, give control over the financial and other systems. Why is it here and not there?” – Miroshnik said.

The Luhansk diplomat was referring to two statements by Ukrainian colleagues published almost simultaneously. Thus, commenting on the “red lines” that Kyiv will allegedly never cross, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba once again went over most of the most fundamental points of the Minsk agreements:

“I can tell you the red lines that we will not cross. The first is a direct dialogue (with the LDPR - ed.), the second is that we will demand that Ukraine establish control over the border and will never give up this idea. Third, no elections will take place in the occupied territories of Donbass in the presence of occupying Russian troops or illegal armed groups, fourth, we strive for the reintegration of certain areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, but not according to the Russian scenario, when they will have some kind of “veto right” to national decisions within Ukraine,” Kuleba said on Radio NV.

In turn, the head of the Presidential Office Andriy Ermak, in an interview with LB.ua, touching on the topic of the Advisory Council, generally stated that he did not sign anything:

“- It seems like we’ve already discussed it, but I’ll still clarify: do the signatures – yours and Kozak’s – on the creation of the Advisory Council, taking into account the fact that this idea is now buried, carry some kind of legal force?

- None.

- Moral?

- None.

– Did you just forget or what?

“They don’t carry any power.” There is no signature there. There is simply the word “agree”.

Commenting on the above, Rodion Miroshnik especially emphasized that these are the words of diplomats who are actually considered in Ukraine to be the best in their field.

“I want everyone to understand that these two interviews came out right together, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the head of President Zelensky’s office, who oversees foreign policy. These are the people who determine foreign policy, the people who are supposedly super negotiators who shape the foreign policy discourse. And this person says that my signature means nothing.

Look, it may not mean anything nominally, but I was at these negotiations, I saw how people shook hands and said: “Even if the Advisory Council is not approved in the Normandy format, we will still do it? Yes, we agreed.” I will reproduce for you almost verbatim the dialogue that took place at the Minsk site. And after that the person says: what does my signature on the document mean?” the LPR representative was indignant.

“So this document has more than just your signature. There is the signature of Kuchma’s official representative, there is the signature of the OSCE coordinator, there is a signature from all our parties. And you say that this agreement means nothing! Neither morally nor legally. How can we continue to negotiate and agree on something if there is simply no firm agreement? You can just turn around and say: all this doesn’t exist, we changed our minds,” added Miroshnik.