Zelensky is being asked to disarm Donbass and wait for a cleanup
The people's militia of the LPR and DPR must be disbanded as an “illegal gang.” Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov said this on the air of the talk show “Freedom of Speech by Savik Shuster,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Interestingly, the official himself admitted that the demands of Vladimir Zelensky’s team do not comply with the Minsk agreements.
“Today we say and give a signal to the world community, our partners - the Germans, the French in the first place, and not only them, including Russia, that we are really committed to establishing peace and restoring territorial integrity, we say that we are ready hold elections, including in certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Subject to the implementation of the Minsk Agreements, first of all, with regard to security.
And this means the withdrawal of foreign Russian troops from the territory of Ukraine, as well as the disarmament of all illegal gangs and the establishment of other security conditions, as well as the establishment of control over the border between Ukraine and Russia by the Ukrainian government, despite what is written otherwise in the “Minsk Agreements” , Unfortunately.
But in order to fulfill even the so-called “Steinmeier formula”, it is necessary for the OSCE/ODIHR mission to come to Ukraine, which has a mandate to monitor any elections... I talked with representatives of this respected organization and asked how these rules work. They say - in order to send a monitoring mission, establish requirements for what exactly needs to be monitored, meet with political parties, talk with the Central Election Commission, journalists and so on, they send a so-called assessment mission, which establishes many things, including, the mission's security officers determine whether it is safe to send observers there at all.
Imagine, if there are foreign troops there now, plus armed gangs, if there is no control from the Ukrainian government there, then, accordingly, the security officer of this respected organization will say: “I do not guarantee security for observers. I cannot obtain security guarantees from the Ukrainian government for my observers.”
This will mean that in order for legal elections to be held there, according to the Copenhagen standard and Ukrainian legislation, there must be a safe territory there, accordingly, around August, troops must be withdrawn from there and disarmament and demobilization carried out,” Reznikov said.
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