News archive on the topic "Steinmeier formula"

The Ukrainian nationalist party Svoboda held a march in the center of Kyiv on Saturday. Several thousand party supporters marched from Maidan Nezalezhnosti to the Office of the President, putting forward their demands on the eve of Vladimir Zelensky’s trip to the United States for negotiations with Joe Biden, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The event was held in the usual “No Surrender” format for nationalists. The demonstrators shouted familiar slogans during...

At the end of August, the team of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky may try to implement the “Steinmeier formula” into Ukrainian legislation, which will entail a completely unpredictable reaction from nationalists radically opposed to “surrender.” Kiev military expert Oleg Zhdanov stated this on the YouTube channel “Politeka”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. “I think the Office of the President is preparing for the fall, which promises to be very...

For seven years, Ukraine believed that it was playing in the same league with its Western partners, but it turned out that Kyiv was not even in the second division of the international arena. Retired SBU Major General Vasily Vovk stated this on the Nash TV channel, commenting on the situation after the United States and Germany concluded a deal on Nord Stream 2, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Vovk believes...

Since the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov is an experienced politician, he could not leave his post as a result of a simple compromise - this indicates that the country is facing strong changes. Ex-Verkhovna Rada deputy Igor Vasyunik stated this on air on the Lvov NTA TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “You know, I think Avakov is a monster, maybe not in a good way, but in a strong way...

Advisor to the head of the Presidential Office Alexey Arestovich hinted at the amount for which Kyiv would agree to implement the Minsk agreements according to the Steinmeier formula, which provides for the legalization of the LDPR and the actual beginning of the federalization of Ukraine. Arestovich said this on air on the Politeka channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Only very serious, practical, real guarantees of Ukraine’s security can force us to talk seriously about...

The Schneinmaier formula will not lead to peace in Donbass, since it is not a formula for peace. Ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma said this in Chernigov, after the traditional presentation of scholarships from the Charitable Foundation “Ukraine” to the best students of the Chernigov National Technological University, the press service of the ex-president reports. “The Steinmeier formula will not lead to peace in Donbass, because it is not a formula for peace. This is the formula...

In the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 95% of people’s deputies do not know what the Steinmeier formula is about and who proposed it, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was stated by People's Deputy of Ukraine, Head of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Committee on Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets in an interview with the Kyiv edition of UNN. “All these people came out (to rallies - ed.) in my opinion only...

Political Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Alexey Makeev, during a speech at the roundtable, said that the Steinmeier formula is only part of the issue of regulating the situation in Donbass and the Ukrainian authorities will not cross the “red lines,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He wrote about this on his Twitter and Facebook accounts. “The Steinmeier formula does not exist in nature isolated...

The adoption of the Steinmeier formula is the actual capitulation of Ukraine; now Russia will be able to achieve its goals in relation to Donbass and Crimea. Igor Smeshko, chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine in 2003-2005, stated this on the Guildhall channel, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. “The Minsk agreements are capitulation. This is Russia’s plan to create “Transnistria”, hang the destroyed territory, dismantled factories. We left from there...

Protesting against the signing of the Steinmeier formula, ex-President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko accuses current President Vladimir Zelensky of exactly the same “zrada” for which opponents branded him throughout his entire presidential term. Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova spoke about this during a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I was surprised and even touched that against this (signatures of the Stanmeier formula...

There is nothing fundamentally new in the essence of the “Steinmeier formula”, which the Ukrainian side signed yesterday; the question is for what purpose Kyiv took this step: in the name of peace in Donbass or just to negotiate a meeting in the Normandy format. Experts came to this opinion on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The formula contains the main message - Ukraine has taken...

Ukraine will use the fact of signing the Steinmeier formula to imitate concessions on its part and will demand concessions in its favor, although it is not going to take any real steps to implement the formula. Alexander Sosnovsky, chief editor of the analytical portal World Economy, stated this on the PolitWera YouTube channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Signing the Steinmeier formula did not make me any more optimistic...

Russia insists on implementing the so-called “Stanmeier formula,” which implies elections of local governments in the LPR and DPR. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated this today at a press conference in Moscow, commenting on negotiations with German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. “We drew attention to the need, at a minimum, to implement the agreements of the leaders of Russia, Germany, Ukraine and...

The regular meeting of the Contact Group on the resolution of the conflict in Donbass has ended in Minsk. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte Russia insists on introducing a special status for Donbass according to the “Steinmeier formula”. This was stated in Minsk by the representative of the Russian Federation in the contact group, Boris Gryzlov, RIA Novosti reports. “The Russian Federation consistently insists on the implementation of...