Russian senators want to freeze the war at its current stage
Moscow - Kyiv, September 6 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - “There are two versions of the memorandum (on the terms of the truce), prepared by the Ukrainian side, as well as the DPR and LPR. They have many similar positions, but there are also contradictions,” said Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Zurabov. Within three days, a group of experts will be formed to combine these documents into one. And although the militias want independence, and Kyiv, having recognized them as a party to the negotiations, is not ready for this, Russian senators hope to freeze the conflict.
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The future status of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics was not discussed, said LPR Prime Minister Igor Plotnitsky. The signing of the protocol does not mean that the DPR and LPR are ready to remain part of Ukraine, “we are going to continue the course of separation. A ceasefire is a forced measure,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying. Discussion of the status of the republics is not so important at the moment; it is important to stop the bloodshed, said DPR Prime Minister Alexander Zakharchenko.
The current agreements look “more serious than previous statements,” said Alexei Pushkov, Chairman of the International Committee of the State Duma, on Rossiya 24. At the same time, deciding what the status of the eastern regions of Ukraine will be should be resolved at the next phase of negotiations, during which the question of what the territory of the republics will be - within the current borders or completely within the borders of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions can be resolved.
According to the first deputy chairman of the international committee of the Federation Council, Vladimir Dzhabrailov, Poroshenko was forced to take this step primarily by the military successes of the militias. The signing of the agreement is the first step to start negotiations with Novorossiya; the issue of the status of the DPR and LPR will be the subject of long negotiations and “political bargaining,” the senator believes.
For the first time, Kyiv perceived the militias “as subjects of the negotiation process”; this truce “could develop into peace,” says the statement of Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Andrei Klimov, received by RBC.
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