The truce is unstable, its terms are unacceptable for Donbass – Russian media
Moscow - Kyiv, September 8 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - The truce, which was agreed upon by representatives of Moscow, Kyiv and Donbass in Minsk, allowed the exchange of prisoners to begin and weakened the fighting, but did not stop it completely. A number of points of the Minsk agreement published by the OSCE are unacceptable to the militia. The war will either resume soon with renewed vigor, or new negotiations will be needed. Morning Moscow newspapers write about this.
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“It would be hard to call the situation peaceful in the south-east of Ukraine,” writes MK. – The ceasefire actually lasted only a few hours. In the Lugansk region, the delivery of humanitarian aid was disrupted due to artillery shelling. Full-scale fighting resumed in Mariupol on Sunday. Fighting continued in the area of the villages of Shchastya and Pervomaiskoe near Lugansk. According to the militia, the Ukrainian army is using the regime to prepare for the offensive: Kramatorsk airport receives flights with a frequency of 30–40 minutes. Bezler’s group from Gorlovka informs: “32 imported tanks entered Debaltsevo, 15 Shiloks entered the tank unit of Artemyevsk, 7 Tochek-U, 6 Gradov plus 1 Smerch, accompanied by 13 tanks also imported. From Mironovka to Debaltsevo there is a column with all types of armored vehicles with a length of 3-4 kilometers.”
Kommersant’s special correspondent reports from Donbass that, despite the parties’ accusations of violating the truce declared on September 5, no serious clashes were recorded. The author of the report witnessed how prisoners were handed over to the Ukrainian side; it is expected that the exchange - and this is one of the points of the Minsk agreement - will continue. However, the militias do not agree with the point about the DPR and LPR joining Ukraine as special regions. According to Ukrainian political scientist Mikhail Pogrebinsky, “it is difficult to imagine that after several months of fierce fighting, the militias will agree to “special status” for just part of the territories for which they sought state independence.”
The opinions of the experts interviewed by the RG differed: some call the ongoing truce technical and set aside no more than five days for a “silence regime”, others talk about the possibility of a political settlement.
The demands “to withdraw illegal armed groups, military equipment, as well as militants and mercenaries from the territory of Ukraine” for the leaders of the DPR and LPR are also tantamount to capitulation, Kommersant notes. Its experts believe that the Minsk agreements are preliminary and can, at best, stop the bloodshed, and that many more negotiations in an expanded format will be needed to resolve the conflict.
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