News archive on the topic "Minsk process"

Contacts within the framework of the Minsk process will be suspended due to the change of power in Germany after the elections to the Bundestag. Vladimir Volya, international affairs expert at the Ukrainian Center for Policy Analysis and Management, stated this in a commentary to a PolitNavigator correspondent. “The Minsk agreements are already dead, but given that Angela Merkel, as the main engine of this entire process of agreements, is leaving big politics, then most likely...

Uncoordinated initiatives on the most important political points by representatives of Zelensky’s team affect the humanitarian component of the negotiations, which leads to consequences such as another breakdown in the exchange of detainees. The director of the Center for Political Conjuncture, Alexei Chesnakov, who is considered close to the assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Vladislav Surkov, who oversees the Ukrainian direction, wrote about this on his Telegram channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “In Minsk neither...

Contrary to the sincere opinion of the Ukrainian war party, the Steinmeier formula is actually a concession to Ukraine on the part of the Russian Federation in order to get the Minsk process off the ground and soften the wording of the Minsk agreements, which is unacceptable for official Kiev, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Kiev political observer Vyacheslav Chechilo writes about this on his social network page. “The leader of the “Voice” party Svyatoslav Vakarchuk said...

Fulfillment of the security conditions of the Minsk agreements, which Kyiv insists on, is a top priority, and only after that can a political component in the form of elections in uncontrolled territories be introduced, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was stated by the acting US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Reeker during a meeting of the OSCE Foreign Ministers Council in Bratislava, reports...

Assistant to the President of Ukraine for International Policy Andriy Ermak, during a speech at Chatham House in London at a conference regarding expectations from the “Normandy summit,” said that Zelensky has a plan “B” in case the Minsk agreements fail, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The theses of Ermak’s speech were presented on her Facebook page by the head of the international cooperation and communications department of the Diplomatic…

Ukraine is ready for direct dialogue with representatives of the uncontrolled areas of Donbass, but proposes to replace the representatives of Donetsk and Lugansk, who represent them today as part of the Trilateral Contact Group to resolve the situation in Donbass, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Assistant to the President of Ukraine for International Policy Andriy Ermak said this at Chatham House in London at a conference on expectations from...

Assistant to the President of Ukraine for International Policy Andriy Ermak said that Ukraine expects to hold local elections in the uncontrolled territories of Donbass on the same day, October 31, 2020, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Ermak stated this during a speech at Chatham House in London. The assistant to the Ukrainian president is quoted by Janek Lasoki, a former official at the European Council on Foreign Relations, “We...

The team of President Vladimir Zelensky began preparing the infrastructure and system of the “transitional justice” project, which will be needed for the reintegration of Donbass into Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was reported by journalists from the Kyiv publication “theBabel” owned by Igor Kolomoisky. The authors call the key points of the concept the punishment of those responsible for crimes committed during the armed conflict, compensation for damage to victims, investigation of the most resonant crimes, and...

In Kiev, they confirmed the information recently voiced by the editor-in-chief of the Russian radio station “Echo of Moscow” Alexei Venediktov regarding the desire of the oligarch Igor Kolomoisky to take the place of the shadow negotiator for Ukraine at the negotiations in Minsk, which was empty after the exit of Viktor Medvedchuk, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. This was reported by the anonymous telegram channel “Legitimny”, the final beneficiary of which in Kyiv is the head of the Office of President Vladimir Zelensky...

Elections in Donbass can only take place if Ukraine controls the entire currently uncontrolled territory, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was stated by President Vladimir Zelensky during today’s visit to the Luhansk region at the opening ceremony of the repaired bridge across the Seversky Donets in Stanitsa Luganskaya, reports the press service of the Ukrainian president, which broadcast from the scene of the event. “We need to talk about...

Maintaining silence and confidentiality around negotiations is important, since any word can be perceived by one of the parties incorrectly and overly emotionally, “throwing wood on a blazing fire,” reports a tPolitNavigator correspondent. Alexey Reznikov, a member of the Ukrainian delegation, head of the political subgroup in the trilateral contact group on resolving the conflict in Donbass, said this in an interview with GORDON. "I don't…

At a meeting of the Contact Group on Donbass in Minsk on security issues, the participants approved today's start of the process of eliminating the Ukrainian side's obligations to eliminate violations in the previously divorced area in the Zolote area, and also agreed on the start date of a similar process in the third pilot area in the Petrovsky area, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent . This was stated by the DPR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "More…

During the next meeting of the Trilateral Contact Group in Minsk, it was not possible to agree with the Ukrainian side on the date of the next attempt to eliminate violations in the disengagement of forces and assets in the Petrovskoye and Zolotoye sections in the Donbass. This was reported on the official website of the DPR Foreign Ministry, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Ukrainian representatives, ignoring not only our arguments, but also the coordinators...

The federalization scenario for Ukraine is unacceptable, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Vadim Prystaiko on October 14, speaking at a meeting of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs, the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine reports. Thus, it is reported that Prystaiko outlined in detail the position and red lines of the Ukrainian side in the context of resolving the conflict in Donbass. “Ukraine is and will be...