Everyone is tired of Ukraine, even herself
Moscow - Kyiv, December 18 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - The resumption of the Minsk process could become a turning point in resolving the Ukrainian crisis, writes today Kommersant, commenting on the telephone conversation between Putin, Hollande, Poroshenko and Merkel. The intensified efforts are caused by the growing political and economic costs borne by all parties, the publication believes.
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Vladimir Putin’s telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko took place on Tuesday evening and became their first such contact after a two-month break.
A statement appeared on the Kremlin’s website saying “the importance of holding a meeting of the contact group as soon as possible in the interests of implementing the Minsk agreements and establishing a dialogue between Kyiv and the southeast.” “The priority tasks include the exchange of forcibly detained persons and the withdrawal of heavy weapons from the contact line by the conflicting parties,” the statement states. The Russian side also announced an agreement to “continue telephone contacts in the Normandy format in the near future.”
The statement from Poroshenko’s press service also reported the parties’ expressed interest in holding a meeting of the contact group by the end of this week.
The DPR and LPR react with restraint. “No one knows the day yet, no one knows the week yet, no one knows the year yet,” noted the head of the People’s Council of the DPR Andrei Purgin, answering a question about the expected date of the new meeting in Minsk.
“The Ukrainian crisis is becoming too costly for all participants,” Sergei Utkin, head of the department of strategic assessments at the Center for Situational Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences, commented on the results of the conversation between the four leaders.
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