News archive on the topic "Normandy Format"

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry issued a hysterical reaction to the words of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who called negotiations on Donbass with the current Ukrainian leadership, which demonstrates complete inability to negotiate, pointless. Today, at a briefing in Kyiv, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that, together with representatives of France and Germany, he is ready for a meeting in the Normandy format, blaming his Russian...

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...

The isolation of Vladimir Putin is a dangerous myth that Ukraine itself created and believed in. In fact, the positions of Russia and the EU on Donbass do not differ much, and Moscow, Paris and Berlin discuss Ukrainian affairs several times a year without the participation of Kyiv. An expert from the organization, Ilya Kusa, stated this on the YouTube channel of the Ukrainian Institute of the Future, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.…

The idea of ​​the Kyiv establishment to include the United States in the Normandy format will lead nowhere, because on this platform all decisions are made not by a majority vote, but by general consensus. Ukrainian political scientist Dmitry Dzhangirov stated this on the YouTube channel “Capital”, reports the correspondent of “PolitNavigator”. “The Office of the President has a constant idea of ​​connecting the United States to the Normandy format. But…

It would be very useful for participants in the Normandy format, as well as residents of Donbass, to familiarize themselves with the draft law “On State Policy in the Transitional Period” proposed by Kiev, which very picturesquely demonstrates Ukraine’s attitude towards the LDPR. The special representative of the LPR at the negotiations on Donbass in Minsk, Rodion Miroshnik, stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “As a result of this meeting...

The meeting of political advisers to the presidents of Russia and Ukraine was needed in order to begin preparations for a new summit of the Normandy Four, which, in turn, is needed by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky to show that there is some progress in the process of resolving the conflict in Donbass. Vladimir Volya, an international political scientist at the Ukrainian Institute of Politics, stated this in a comment to a PolitNavigator correspondent. "This meeting...

Thanks to Ukraine, five important points of the Minsk agreements, the implementation of which were agreed upon at the meeting of the leaders of the Normandy Four countries exactly a year ago, were thwarted. The corresponding reminder was published by the Russian Foreign Ministry, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Exactly a year ago, the leaders of Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine confirmed that there was no alternative to the Minsk agreements as the basis for resolving the conflict in Donbass and outlined seven priority steps that...

Russia will no longer give advances to Vladimir Zelensky, which were exchanges of prisoners, thanks to which the Ukrainian president received bonuses to his rating. The Kremlin has realized that Zelensky does not want to implement the Minsk agreements, so there is no talk of any repeat meeting of the leaders of the Normandy Four. Political scientist Vadim Karasev stated this on the NewsOne TV channel, the correspondent reports...

There will not be another “Normandy format” meeting on the Donbass issue in the near future. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated this during an online lecture to MGIMO students, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Lavrov, since the last meeting in December last year, Ukraine has not fulfilled any of its obligations, so meeting in the Normandy format is pointless. “We proceeded from the fact that...

Vladimir Zelensky and Alexey Goncharuk are people who don’t decide anything and were hired to portray the president and prime minister. Ukrainian composer Vladimir Bystryakov announced this to the PolitWera YouTube channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “It’s not Zelensky who decides everything, and it’s not Goncharuk who decides everything, of course,” he said. – And not this government. This is clear, and the further it goes, the clearer it becomes. AND…

The initiative taken up by the Ukrainian side to change the sequence of the “Minsk” points in order to take the border of the LDPR and the Russian Federation before the elections in Donbass is akin to the situation if Russia, at the Normandy format, demanded that Kyiv enshrine the provision of a confederation in the Constitution of Ukraine. Denis Denisov, director of the Institute of Peacemaking Initiatives and Conflictology, stated this during a press conference, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. "Relatively…

The holding of the next meeting in the Normandy format is a big question, since complete confusion and hostility reign among the Ukrainian elites. Some have no desire to end the military conflict, others do not have the opportunity, and still others are simply afraid to leave the front line, realizing that they could be prosecuted at any time against the backdrop of the reigning political chaos in...

Ukraine emerged from the negotiations in Paris as the losing side. We are talking, first of all, about image losses for President Vladimir Zelensky, who showed himself to be a person who does not control the situation, invited only to sign a document prepared by the leaders of three states. Former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Aleksey Zhuravko stated this in a commentary to PolitNavigator. "If we talk...

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, during the upcoming meeting in the Normandy format, better not stutter about the legality or illegality of changes in the territorial integrity of Ukraine after 2014. Ukrainian political scientist Alexander Semchenko stated this on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Zelensky in his last interview clearly outlined why he is going to Paris - he is going there for...